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The Weird Concept of Branchless Programming

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170 points judicious | 1 comments | 28 Sep 25 16:40 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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rao-v ◴[28 Sep 25 18:55 UTC] No.45406877[source]▶
I’m amused to see a for loop in a function that is purportedly branchless

(not a critique)

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1. bluGill ◴[28 Sep 25 23:40 UTC] No.45409050[source]▶
Loops are very predictable in general so the branch isn't a problem. Of course this assumes your branch codition is standard - you can do weird things in the end condition that would food the cpu.