This is outdated information; Intel chips have not used static prediction for conditional branches since NetBurst (Pentium 4). "Pentium M, Intel Core Solo and

This is outdated information; Intel chips have not used static prediction for conditional branches since NetBurst (Pentium 4). "Pentium M, Intel Core Solo and Intel Core Duo processors do not statically predict conditional branches according to the jump direction. All conditional branches are dynamically predicted, even at first appearance." --http://www.intel.com/content/dam/doc/manual/64-ia-32-architectures-optimization-manual.pdf http://www.intel.com/content/dam/doc/manual/64-ia-32-archite...