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Wasn't one of the earliest forms of branch prediction the simple
heuristic of always taking it in one direction and not taking it in the
other direction , I seem to remember that being the case for some of the
early pipelined microprocessors. I believe it was called static branch
prediction compared to the more modern dynamic branch prediction.

Nicholas (Nick) King

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