noun
branch prediction
A CPU optimization technique that guesses the outcome of a conditional branch to improve instruction pipelining.
分岐予測の精度が高いほど、CPUのパフォーマンスが向上する。
The higher the accuracy of branch prediction, the better the CPU performance.
Compound of 分岐 (branch) and 予測 (prediction), a calque of the English computing term 'branch prediction'.