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Re:Jump Threading by qznc on Thursday October 29, 2015 @08:19AM (#10470424)
I don't understand what you mean with "no degradation".

A branch predictor can be wrong. A simple jump is like the branch predictor is always right. Thus, the code might run faster.

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Re:Jump Threading by heinrich5991 on Thursday October 29, 2015 @09:13AM (#10470687)
Yes. But a branch predictor can also be right every time. Or it could be right so often that it is better than the larger memory footprint of the program.
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