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GeneralLearning to live without if() statements Pin
honey the codewitch7-Jan-21 11:07
mvahoney the codewitch7-Jan-21 11:07 
A tale of two functions:

C++
// returns whichever is greatest
int max(int x, int y) {
	if(x>y)
		return x;
	return y;
}

and
C++
// returns whichever is greatest
int max(int x, int y) {
	return x*(x>y)+y*(x<=y);
}

do the same thing

one is much harder to read, but also optimizable in ways the other isn't.

the CPU really likes code like the second one. Even with the extra multiplies, you can use SIMD instructions to pay for that overhead, while the code doesn't interfere with branch prediction

but coding without ifs gets weird really fast. The above is simple. Now add code to do the same thing but operate on 4 32-bit ints at a time so that it efficiently uses SIMD. Or do something more complicated than finding a max of two values and you'll see what i mean.

Smart optimizing compilers can do some of this, and much of the stdlib is already optimized with simd instructions and branch prediction in mind, but when you're trying to squeeze every last cycle out of your CPU you have to take things into your own hands.

It's not something I'd normally do, but I'm working with a codebase that's already highly optimized, to try and make it faster. So this is par for the course.
Real programmers use butterflies

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