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		moonchild on July 6, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: {n} times faster than C Branches are prone to be faster than conditional moves if they are correctly predicted, because they do not increase the critical path length. And utf-8 decoders are commonly run on all-ascii input. What were you benchmarking on?

aidenn0 on July 6, 2023 [–]

I ran separate benchmarks on all-ASCII, BMP-only, and ascii with non-BMP. ASCII was not slower on the low-branch version.

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