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If you have conditionals in your program, it means that you're trying to do too many things at once. Follow the UNIX philosophy: do one thing, and do it well!

And always run every program and always pass every option! Do everything well!

No branches if you movfuscate[1] your code! You do end up with that happy path, that straight path, that clean path that's wholly immune to those pesky branching bugs.

1: https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/movfuscator

A for loop also is an implicit branch, by the way. At least it will be compiled to something with a conditional jump.

So being unsure about how many times you want to do a thing is a no-go too.

Not if it's a known constant trip count, then you can fully unroll it. No more branches!

If the trip count isn't known at compile time? You should find out.