Anyway, it seems to me that if my recollection were accurate, a single branch which went the same way virtually every time could have a lower cost in a heavily

Anyway, it seems to me that if my recollection were accurate, a single branch which went the same way virtually every time could have a lower cost in a heavily pipelined system than a more distrubted error checking scheme. That, in a nutshell, was what I was claiming.