I can promise you wouldn't once you've tried going beyond the simplest possible single issue pipeline. Thankfully branch prediction made them sort of pointless

I can promise you wouldn't once you've tried going beyond the simplest possible single issue pipeline. Thankfully branch prediction made them sort of pointless. RISC-V and Alpha are two of the better RISCs ISAs in this world and they don't have them. Read the RISC-V ISA footnotes [1] for excellent design decisions rationales. [1] http://riscv.org/download.html#tab_isaspec http://riscv.org/download.html#tab_isaspec