I have always been fascinated by the effect of branch prediction demonstrated in this StackOverflow question , and I wanted to include this example in my course to illustrate how hard it is to predict the performance of modern hardware. Unfortunately, it seems that this example no longer works in Ju…

Branch elimination in Julia

ettersi July 22, 2020, 7:50am 6

Any chance I can the compiler not to eliminate the branch so I can still illustrate the effect?

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