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- URL: https://x.com/Jatin_exe/status/2078116506924171699
- Author: Jatin Khanna (@Jatin_exe)
- Posted: 2026-07-17 13:55:59
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1/ @Jatin_exe
I love how well articulated this post is!
…Counter that by counting the NUMBER OF BRANCHES. A branch is: an “if”, a “match”, a “case”. That’s THE complexity of your program..
Could we do this better by measuring the properties of the IR graph from the code
Maybe we need to aim for kolmogorov compression
2/ @VictorTaelin
@Jatin_exe
no
number of branches. period.
3/ @Jatin_exe
@VictorTaelin
What if it starts doing branchless programming as a reward hack
4/ @henryzom
@Jatin_exe @VictorTaelin
Yay performance
5/ @Jatin_exe
@henryzom @VictorTaelin
You can have a very bad performance code with zero branches compared to good perf with branches (I think )
If you take it to the extreme and try to minimize only the no of branches to the least you can get, will be interesting to see how it works