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Is there a tool available to profile java applications regarding branch (mis)prediction statistics for if statements?

I know VisualVM and JDK Mission Control but did not find such functionality.

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No such tool exists.

It is generally impossible to extract that information from CPU, you can either measure performance of code block, or emulate execution of code and collect such statistic.

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CPUs do have hardware performance counters for branches and branch hits. Using perf stat --all-user java foo.jar will count overall (user-space only) branch miss stats for the whole Java process. perf record --all-user -e branch-misses ./a.out will record samples on branch misses, including for JITed machine code. Finding the JITed machine code for a specific if() in your Java source in the perf report output is probably a huge pain, unless you ran a microbenchmark and counted cycles,branch-misses so you could look for the code where your program spent most of its time.

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