Jean Delvare wrote:
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> Hi Bill,
>
> On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 07:04:10 -0600, Bill Gatliff wrote:
>   
>> Jean Delvare wrote:
>>     
>>> !!(value & (1 << offset))
>>> is more efficiently written
>>> (value >> offset) & 1
>>>       
>> ... but not more efficiently implemented.
>>
>> Your version requires code to do the shift on live data at runtime.  
>> David's version lets the compiler create the mask once, at compile-time.
>>     
>
> I don't understand. How could the compiler create the mask at
> compile-time when "offset" is only known at runtime?
>   

Oops.  :)  I was thinking of some different code.  Disregard.

/me got up too early this morning, after working too late last night!


b.g.

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Bill Gatliff
bgat@billgatliff.com

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