Not for jumps - modern CPUs still (usually) have limit of one taken branch per cycle, or 1 to 2 untaken branches. And usually branch prediction will be the limi

Not for jumps - modern CPUs still (usually) have limit of one taken branch per cycle, or 1 to 2 untaken branches. And usually branch prediction will be the limiting factor anyway, for which a single branch is gonna be faster than many.