Standard way to supply hints to branches

[Manu]

On Fri, 30 Aug 2024 at 04:32, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d <
digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:

> On 8/28/2024 2:45 AM, Manu wrote:
> > Here's one that I just wrote a short while ago:
> > https://gist.github.com/TurkeyMan/0e49da245cc0086f852ac18deed21a9c
>
>
> ```
> if (data.length < 4) // unlikely
>      return 0;
> ```
>
> replace with:
>
> ```
> if (data.length < 4)
>      goto Lreturn0;
> ```
>

How is that any different? The branch prediction hasn't changed.
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