Branchless Programming: Why “If” is Sloowww, and what we can do about it [video]

The highest-voted question on Stack Overflow is related to branch predictions and branchless programming:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11227809/why-is-processi...

Mandatory don't trust the folklore: https://hal.inria.fr/hal-01100647/document

Creel also has a lot of great videos for those interested in getting started with assembly.

All of these cases should really be done by the compiler on O3.