On Fri, Nov 01, 2013 at 03:42:46PM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:

On Thu, 2013-10-31 at 14:30 -0400, Neil Horman wrote:
[...]

quoted

It
functions, but unfortunately the performance lost to the completely broken
branch prediction that this inflicts makes it a non starter:

[...]

Conditional branches are no good but conditional moves might be worth a shot.

Ben.

How would you suggest replacing the jumps in this case?  I agree it would be
faster here, but I'm not sure how I would implement an increment using a single
conditional move.
Neil

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