Linux Kernel Module Cheat

mov if a condition is met:

Equals:

where cc are the same flags as Jcc.

Vs jmp:

Not necessarily faster because of branch prediction.

This is partly why the ternary ? C operator exists: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3565368/ternary-operator-vs-if-else

It is interesting to compare this with ARMv7 conditional execution: which is available for all instructions, as shown at: Section 30.2.5, “ARM conditional execution”.