On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 12:51 PM, Rodrigo Kumpera <kump...@gmail.com> wrote: > Now onto the null check. Such a null check will exploit a cpu feature known > as branch prediction, which guesses the outcome of the > conditional jump. Since in the majority of the cases the value won't be > null, the cpu can pretend the branch doesn't exist and keep executing > as it was not taken. This means the null check costs virtually nothing on a > modern cpu.
Could we have the JIT recognize the "if (foo == null) throw ..." pattern and add a branch hint? -- Michael Hutchinson http://mjhutchinson.com _______________________________________________ Mono-devel-list mailing list Mono-devel-list@lists.ximian.com http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-devel-list
