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Might be useful to look at Hacker's Delight (H. S. Warren, Jr).

On 11/04/2026 02:04, John R Levine wrote:
> Optimization of 32-bit Unsigned Division by Constants on 64-bit Targets
>
> Shigeo Mitsunari, Takashi Hoshino
> ...
> https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.07902

[It's an amazing book that belongs on every compiler developer's shelf. Here's a
version of the first edition, of dubious legality, at the Internet archive:
https://dn710003.ca.archive.org/0/items/random-papers9/Henry%20S.%20Warren%20-%20Hacker%27s%20delight-Addison-Wesley%20%282003%29.pdf
-John]