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There is of course a slight chicken-egg-thing here: If there was no (dynamic) branch prediction, we (as in compilers) would emit different code that is faster f
by grumbelbart2 1y ago
There is of course a slight chicken-egg-thing here: If there was no (dynamic) branch prediction, we (as in compilers) would emit different code that is faster for non-predicting CPUs (and presumably slower for predicting CPUs). That would mitigate a bit of that 10x.
- anyfoo 1y agoA bit. I think we've shown time and time again that letting the compiler do what the CPU is doing doesn't work out, most recently with Itanium.