The chart in the results section is interesting. I don't remember reading Raymond Chen's post on branch prediction before, so thanks for that: http://blogs.ms

The chart in the results section is interesting. I don't remember reading Raymond Chen's post on branch prediction before, so thanks for that: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2014/06/13/10533875.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2014/06/13/10533... I especially liked Raymond's comment: "Compiler optimizations may have been carefully selected for expository purposes." Counterintuitive, and interesting that the Swift program demonstrates the effect as clearly as the C program.