Re: xor as a lazy comparison

From: Philippe Troin
Date: Mon Jul 25 2005 - 14:19:57 EST


Lee Revell <rlrevell@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Mon, 2005-07-25 at 13:55 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > Doesn't matter. The cycles saved for old compilers is not rational to
> > have obfuscated code.
>
> Where do we draw the line with this? Is x *= 2 preferable to x <<= 2 as
> well?

Depends if you want to multiply by 2 or 4 :-)

Phil.
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