How do you measure the effect of branch misprediction?

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Published on 2010-05-20T21:22:32Z Indexed on 2010/05/20 21:30 UTC
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I'm currently profiling an implementation of binary search. Using some special instructions to measure this I noticed that the code has about a 20% misprediction rate. I'm curious if there is any way to check how many cycles I'm potentially losing due to this. It's a MIPS based architecture.

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