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Re:Bypassing the Branch Predictor on Sunday November 16, 2025 @08:42PM (#45950149)
1 - Can you elaborate? To what standard do you hold "work well"?

2 - Can you back that up? Generally [[likely]] is for the codepath that you want to be faster, where common path = fast path. It is a specific HFT use case to desire the fast path to be the uncommon path. [[likely]] is definitely intended to be the fast path per https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/attributes/likely

The Tesla AI day videos [1] go into some detail about this. They use multiple networks that are dedicated to specific tasks.

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0z4FweCy4M (2021), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODSJsviD_SU (2022)

Not true, you can hold a clearance and stay a dual citizen.