It doesn't really, a NOP is equivalent to most jumps now, I'll try to dig up a source for that in a few hours. It used to be the case 10-20 years ago, I remembe

It doesn't really, a NOP is equivalent to most jumps now, I'll try to dig up a source for that in a few hours. It used to be the case 10-20 years ago, I remember reading about it on an llvm thread.