toying with the design of my toy virtual machine. .

i have a wild idea. what if i got rid of all the conditional jp instructions and replace them with conditional MOV?

the idea would be to eliminate branches so that pipelines get perfect prediction with no backtracking- instead, both branches run straight through, assign their outcomes to TRUE register, and FALSE register, then do the conditional math code; and MOVZ copies the true value to destination register if zero flag set; copies false value to destination if not- mov takes 3 registers and a flag

is this a terrible idea? am i gonna miss conditional jump?