Bungee jumps

Indirect branches have historically been a challenge for microarchitectures and code generators alike. The recent steady increase in indirect branch predictability has translated into continual performance improvements especially for Out-of-Order processors which benefit more readily from improvements in branch prediction. In contrast, in-order processors which rely on code generators for performance are still challenged by indirect branches; they are a frequent source of issue stalls and the large number of indirect branch targets and unbiased nature of indirect branches complicate the use of traditional branch handling techniques like assert conversion and predication.