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		caf on Aug 10, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Tracing JITs and modern CPUs part 3: A bad case My point is just to reiterate that the 0,1,0,1,0,1,... pattern of i % 2 == 0 is actually exactly the kind of pattern that branch predictors excel at, which you seemed to be skeptical of.

seanmcdirmid on Aug 10, 2015 [–]

Right, I was wrong. I'm wondering what the use case is for that kind of silicon... interpreters?

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