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by danybittel 501 days ago
f or g may have side effects too. Like writing to memory. Now a conditional has a different meaning.

You could also have some fun stuff, where f and g return a boolean, because thanks to short circuit evaluation && || are actually also conditionals in disguise.

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Side effects will be masked, the GPU is still executing exactly the same code for the entire workgroup.