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:) That's what I came to say

http://kerneltrap.org/node/4705

I also have some other links :

These people saw 10% gain in their Scheme http://people.csail.mit.edu/jaffer/CNS/interpreter-branch

And this concerns reducing power consumption using Branch Prediction Prediction ! http://www.eecg.toronto.edu/~moshovos/research/iccd02.pdf