x86 has CMOV, for Conditional MOVe, since the Pentium Pro, and of course there are tricks employed by compilers and low-level programmers to avoid the overhead

x86 has CMOV, for Conditional MOVe, since the Pentium Pro, and of course there are tricks employed by compilers and low-level programmers to avoid the overhead of branches, like the `a = cond·b + !cond·c` idiom.