Posted Dec 16, 2010 14:45 UTC (Thu) by Yorick (subscriber, #19241)
In reply to: Likely unlikely()s by JoeBuck
Parent article: Likely unlikely()s
I have heard that story been told in conjunction with the FORTRAN's original FREQUENCY statement, which allegely was dropped because of this (and because humans turned out to be bad at estimating branch frequencies in general). Anyway, I cannot seem to find a source for this either.