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Branching is different instruction paths, so it requires reading the instructions from different memory that causes a delay jumping to those new instructions rather than plowing ahead on the current stream of instructions. So a conditional jump is a branch but a conditional move is just an instruction that moves one of two values into a register but doesn’t affect what code is executed next.


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