People who were looking for a root cause of the iOS JavaScript performance advantage have been pointing to that instruction as "the" reason before it was even u

People who were looking for a root cause of the iOS JavaScript performance advantage have been pointing to that instruction as "the" reason before it was even used by Safari. https://mobile.twitter.com/saambarati/status/1049202132522479616 https://mobile.twitter.com/saambarati/status/104920213252247... I'm sure it doesn't hurt, but the performance advantage predates the instruction's use. Here's another theory. >Finally doing perf counters on a dedicated test bench... 9900K having 60% worse branch misprediction than Apple's A12. https://twitter.com/andreif7/status/1307420010177007625 https://twitter.com/andreif7/status/1307420010177007625