From: mikko.levanto@iki.fi   
      
   On 2025-10-16 09:13:48 +0000, Alexis said:   
      
   > Thought this might interest people here.   
   >   
   > "If you came for readable code, sorry, branchless programming is   
   > basically code golf with caffeine ...   
   >   
   > "By rewriting conditional logic into arithmetic and bit operations, or   
   > using CPU instructions like cmov, we let the CPU chew through code   
   > without pausing to guess. It’s smoother, faster, and often more   
   > deterministic, which is crucial in performance-critical or   
   > side-channel-resistant scenarios (looking at you, cryptography)."   
   >   
   >   https://sanixdk.xyz/blogs/the-weird-concept-of-branchless-programming   
   >   
   > HN discussion:   
   >   
   >   https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45405750   
   >   
   >   
   > Alexis.   
      
   A program that is branchless may still have branches wnen translated.   
   Even soomething as simmple as   
      
     long i;   
     ...   
     i++;   
      
   may have a branch in the machine code:   
      
     inc low part of i   
     if low part of i != 0 go to L   
       inc high part of i   
   L:   
      
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   Mikko   
      
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