Techniques for making your program run faster

    Joined conditions – cheap and expensive conditions
    Optimize chains of if/else commands
    Use lookup tables instead of switch
    Move the most common case out of switch
    Rewrite joined conditions
    Suggest to the compiler which branch has a higher probability
    Use branchless algorithms
    Use conditional loads instead of branches
    Go branchless with arithmetic
    Reorganize your code in order to avoid branching
    Remove branches with templates
    A few other tricks to avoid branches

https://johnnysswlab.com/how-branches-influence-the-performance-of-your-code-and-what-can-you-do-about-it/
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