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Sharlin
on Dec 13, 2020
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If-then-else had to be invented
x86 has CMOV, for Conditional MOVe, since the Pentium Pro, and of course there are tricks employed by compilers and low-level programmers to avoid the overhead of branches, like the `a = cond·b + !cond·c` idiom.
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