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- Microbenchmarking return address branch prediction (2018) https://blog.stuffedcow.net/2018/04/ras-microbenchmarks/ 4 comments
- How and why CPUs do “branch prediction” (2017) https://danluu.com/branch-prediction/ 33 comments
- What is Branch Prediction? http://stackoverflow.com/a/11227902/127880 28 comments
- Microsoft backports AMD branch prediction improvement to Windows 11 23H2 https://www.tomshardware.com/software/windows/microsoft-backports-branch-prediction-improvements-to-windows-11-23h2-more-users-will-see-ryzen-performance-improvements 47 comments
- Unexpected ways memory subsystem interacts with branch prediction https://johnnysswlab.com/unexpected-ways-memory-subsystem-interacts-with-branch-prediction/ 27 comments
- Branch Prediction and the Performance of Interpreters – Don’t Trust Folklore https://hal.inria.fr/hal-01100647/document 52 comments
Lobsters
- Branch Prediction Is Not a Solved Problem https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.08170 6 comments hardware
- Adding a (predictable) branch to existing code can increase branch mispredictions https://lemire.me/blog/2019/11/06/adding-a-predictable-branch-to-existing-code-can-increase-branch-mispredictions/ 2 comments performance
- 95% Branch Prediction Accuracy https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/2005/CompArch/mpr-branchpredict.pdf 22 comments compilers
- I was bitten by my CPU's branch prediction. https://github.com/miguel-r-s/bitcounting/blob/master/readme.md#bitten-by-my-cpus-branch-prediction 49 comments programming
- Another Branch Prediction Attack https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2018/03/another_branch_.html 36 comments programming
- As predicted, more branch prediction processor attacks are discovered https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/03/its-not-just-spectre-researchers-reveal-more-branch-prediction-attacks/ 210 comments programming
- An intro to branch prediction https://danluu.com/branch-prediction/ 12 comments hardware
- A history of branch prediction from 1500000 BC to 1995 https://danluu.com/branch-prediction/ 186 comments programming
- Tuning branch prediction in Haskell https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/849 9 comments haskell
- What is Branch Prediction? http://stackoverflow.com/a/11227902/1942688 219 comments programming
- You are the victim of branch prediction fail. http://stackoverflow.com/a/11227902/79109 41 comments programming
- An Experimental Study of Sorting and Branch Prediction [PDF] http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.157.9149 6 comments programming
- Benchmarking is hard: processors learn to predict branches https://lemire.me/blog/2019/10/16/benchmarking-is-hard-processors-learn-to-predict-branches/ 9 comments programming
- Question about branch prediction for clauses that are either `true` for 100% of the time, or `false` for 100% of the time. https://youtu.be/g-WPhYREFjk 8 comments cpp
- Bank execs predict branch model will be dead within 5 years https://www.finextra.com/newsarticle/38328/bank-execs-predict-branch-model-will-be-dead-within-5-years 62 comments economy
- So... You wanna measure Branch Prediction Hit Rate with BPF and C++? http://www.mycpu.org/writing-bpf-c++/ 5 comments cpp
- With Muslim population rising in Bengal, RSS predicts its branches will double http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-news-india/with-rising-muslim-population-in-bengal-rss-predicts-its-branches-will-double/ 5 comments india
- Branch Prediction in the new Mill CPU architecture http://ootbcomp.com/docs/prediction/index.html 17 comments programming
- Branch prediction & how GCC estimates branch frequencies https://kristerw.blogspot.com/2017/02/branch-prediction.html 7 comments cpp
- Unexpected Ways Memory Subsystem Interacts with Branch Prediction - Johnny's Software Lab https://johnnysswlab.com/unexpected-ways-memory-subsystem-interacts-with-branch-prediction/ 5 comments cpp
- Branch Prediction - Fundamentals Every Programmer Need Not Know http://www.mycpu.org/branch-prediction-basics/ 7 comments cpp
- [C++] TIL that you can use likely() and unlikely() to help the compiler with branch prediction http://www.geeksforgeeks.org/branch-prediction-macros-in-gcc/ 55 comments programmertil
- Branch Prediction and the Performance of Interpreters - Don’t Trust Folklore (PDF) https://hal.inria.fr/hal-01100647/document 9 comments programming
- Branch Prediction and the Performance of Interpreters - Don’t Trust Folklore (PDF) https://hal.inria.fr/hal-01100647/document 5 comments compsci
- branch prediction de-mystified http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11227809/why-is-processing-a-sorted-array-faster-than-an-unsorted-array?answertab=active#tab-top 8 comments programming
- Fast and slow if-statements: branch prediction in modern processors http://igoro.com/archive/fast-and-slow-if-statements-branch-prediction-in-modern-processors/ 76 comments programming
- Adding a (predictable) branch to existing code can increase branch mispredictions https://lemire.me/blog/2019/11/06/adding-a-predictable-branch-to-existing-code-can-increase-branch-mispredictions/ 11 comments programming
- Branch Prediction in the new Mill CPU architecture -- a talk by Ivan Godard http://ootbcomp.com/docs/prediction/ 29 comments compsci
- In addition to branch prediction and caching, what other aspects of modern computer architecture should programmers be aware of when writing efficient code? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/branch_predictor 164 comments programming
- How Branch Prediction Fails: The Invisible Performance Killer You Didn’t Know About! - Most upvoted stackoverflow, absolute gem https://stackoverflow.com/a/11227902 5 comments programming
- Instead of a singularity inside black holes, loop quantum gravity predicts a funnel to another branch of the space-time. https://scienmag.com/beyond-einstein/ 24 comments science
- Found this nice example illustrating gcc's branch prediction annotation: __builtin_expect() http://techblog.zabuchy.net/2006/gcc-optimisation-__builtin_expect/ 28 comments programming
- Even for small arrays in a cache-line, binary search faster than linear search - because of branch prediction! http://www.pvk.ca/blog/2012/07/03/binary-search-star-eliminates-star-branch-mispredictions/ 99 comments programming
- Former military operative regularly briefed by intelligence community: a branch of government operating in secret with no oversight running AI software to predict EVERY American's behavior http://911truth.org/article.php?story=20080430182318128 2 comments technology