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		achierius 9 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The ITTAGE indirect branch predictor "very well may be" but oftentimes isn't. Branch history does in practice do a very good job of predicting what target you're going to take for an indirect branch.

nynx 9 months ago [–]

Sure. I can easily see that often being the case for arbitrary code but not interpreter dispatch loops.

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