conditional operator good for optimization?

[mhoover]

I'm trying to remove branches from my code so it consumes less %cpu.

If I convert an inner loop if statement from:

if ( b ) {
 a = c;
} else {
 a = d;
}

if ( b ) {
 a = c;
} else {
 a = d;
}

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To:

a = b ? c : d

a = b ? c : d

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Does that take a branch out of the opcode?

Initial tests indicate this does not reduce the %cpu of my app very much.