On: Branch Prediction and the Performance of Interpreters – Don’t Trust Folklore

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> understanding in the academic literature is lagging

Even that were too much to claim as the "branch prediction championships" happened on an "academic" place:

IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture

http://www.jilp.org/cbp/

http://www.microarch.org/micro37/

also note the sponsors.