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Re:Branchless Programming: Why “If” is Sloowww, and what we ... by Sohcahtoa82 on Monday July 13, 2020 @05:03PM (#23825541)
The highest-voted question on Stack Overflow is related to branch predictions and branchless programming:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11227809/why-is-processi...

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Re:Branchless Programming: Why “If” is Sloowww, and what we ... by pabo on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @06:06PM (#23838587)
This is a great post, thanks for sharing!
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Re:Branchless Programming: Why “If” is Sloowww, and what we ... by mratsim on Monday July 13, 2020 @02:17PM (#23823803)
Mandatory don't trust the folklore: https://hal.inria.fr/hal-01100647/document
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Re:Branchless Programming: Why “If” is Sloowww, and what we ... by cellularmitosis on Monday July 13, 2020 @09:26AM (#23820478)
Creel also has a lot of great videos for those interested in getting started with assembly.
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Re:Branchless Programming: Why “If” is Sloowww, and what we ... by pbsds on Monday July 13, 2020 @10:41AM (#23821249)
All of these cases should really be done by the compiler on O3.
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