Why CPU Branch Prediction Fails: Pipeline Bubbles, Speculative Execution, and Branchless Code

DEV Community·3 points·syed_anzar·about 22 hours ago·dev.to

Why a sorted array processes 6x faster than unsorted data: CPU pipelines, 2-bit counters, TAGE predictors, pipeline bubbles, and writing branchless code.

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