Show HN: More Branchless Optimization
By kooi · 2026-08-07 · 1 points · 0 comments
https://sites.google.com/view/david-kooi/blog/branchless_in_c
I thought the recent post about branchless optimization in Rust was pretty cool. This morning I came across a HN post about someone's hand rolled word counter in C. I realized it was a great candidate to remove branches from the inner loop. It gets more than a 2x speed up when b…
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