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hellzbellz123last Friday at 12:21 PM1 replyview on HN

I'm not entirely sure but could it be predictive branching?


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bmacholast Saturday at 8:14 AM

No, it needs to read the entire executable in order to be correct, it can't skip anything. Therefore the time for the IO must be a lower bound, predictive branching can't help that.