Re: xor as a lazy comparison

[Bernd Petrovitsch]

On Tue, 2005-07-26 at 08:07 +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
[...]
> To answer for x *= 2 vs x <<= 1:
and x += x

> Use * when you would logically want to do a multiplication,
> << if you're working on a bitfield. It's just for keeping the code clean 
> enough so that others may understand it.
> 
> In the longshot, it does not matter, as gcc will optimize out multiplication 
                                          ^^^ the C compiler
> with powers of two to bitops.

And if the C compiler is not doing this properly, such tunings are
probably in 100%-\eps cases worthless anyway.

	Bernd
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