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title: "The Cost of Branching"
summary: "The Cost of Branching: a page of the HPC note."
date: 2026-09-11
author: hpcnotes
kind: note
parent: hpc-pipelining
order: 2
tags: hpc
draft: false
---

A branch is cheap until it is not. Profile the mispredicts, then decide on predication.