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On Sun, 22 Sep 2024 0:14:49 +0000, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:

> On 9/21/2024 4:29 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>> On Sat, 21 Sep 2024 22:14:12 -0000 (UTC), John Levine wrote:
>>
>>> But you are in general right, it makes more sense to keep the computer
>>> running in the normal case and provide slow ways to recover from
>>> failures and do something else.
>>
>> Aren’t branches that are not taken supposed to be fast?
>
> Well, they are not taken, so they should be faster... ;^)

It is NOT the speed, it is the code bloat.