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<p>In <a href="page.php?w=computer_architecture">computer architecture</a>, a <b>branch predictor</b> is a <a href="page.php?w=digital_electronics">digital circuit</a> that tries to guess which way a <a href="page.php?w=branch_%28computer_science%29">branch</a> (e.g., an <a href="page.php?w=conditional_%28programming%29">if-then-else structure</a>) will go before this is known definitively. The purpose of the branch predictor is to improve the flow in the <a href="page.php?w=instruction_pipeline">instruction pipeline</a>. Branch predictors play</p><p>
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