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Given the classic stack overflow branch predictor question, you are underselling things quite a lot - a factor of 6 on those older processors in question, and who knows on modern processors.

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




I'd give at least a single order of magnitude for most code; maybe closer to two even.




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