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Message: [QUOTE="Eric Sosman, post: 4214613"] You will take one branch if a or b or c is zero, none if all are nonzero. You will never take more than one branch. So no rearrangement can help unless a branch-not-taken has significant cost. If it's still worth proceeding, consider replacing && with &: if (a & b & c) ... This is not quite equivalent to the original, because it can only work with integer operands and only then if a,b,c have suitable values (consider 1,7,32, for example). But you can fix that: if ((a != 0) & (b != 0) & (c != 0)) ... or more briefly: if ( !(!a | !b | !c)) ... or if you find that hard to read: if (!!a & !!b & !!c) ... Of course, the question of what all these alternatives compile to and which is fastest in your particular situation is something that you'll have to answer yourself, preferably by measurement. [/QUOTE]