Why Trees Without Branches Grow Faster: The Case for Reducing Branches in Code | CedarDB - The All-In-One-Database
In some of our blog posts, we explained what steps we take to reduce the number of branching instructions in our critical paths. However, we only ever claimed that this is much better and faster, and always omitted explaining why. So today we will fix this and take a deep dive into the gritty details of instruction execution on modern CPUs.| CedarDB - The All-In-One-Database
