Re: xor as a lazy comparison

[Jan Engelhardt]

>To confuse you, coders with assembly or hardware background throw in 

I doubt that. I'm good enough assembly to see this :)

>equivalent bit operations to succinctly describe their visualisation 
>of solution space...  Perhaps the writer _wanted_ you to pause and 
>think?  Maybe the compiler produces better code?  Try it and see.

It produces a simple CMP. Should not be inefficient, though.


Jan Engelhardt
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