There's a pretty famous StackOverflow question/answer about branch prediction failure: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11227809/why-is-processing-a-sorted-

There's a pretty famous StackOverflow question/answer about branch prediction failure: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11227809/why-is-processing-a-sorted-array-faster-than-processing-an-unsorted-array https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11227809/why-is-processi...