The Mill has some mitigations, perhaps? It has an extremely small mispredict penalty (5 cycles) if the taken path is in the instruction cache. It can execute up to 6 dependent instructions in a single cycle. It also makes classic VLIW definitions of Very seem exaggerated 
What is predicted is very novel to the Mill, but the how is normal. There are predictors that try to predict the number of iterations and so on; these are implementation choices and models may differ.