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Re: bit twiddling hacks

From "Chris Uppal" <chris.uppal@metagnostic.REMOVE-THIS.org>
Newsgroups comp.programming
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Subject Re: bit twiddling hacks
Date 2013-03-06 07:58 +0000
Message-ID <cMKdnf7r6-rNaqvMnZ2dnUVZ8q2dnZ2d@bt.com> (permalink)

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bob wrote:
> How do people typically come up with bit twiddling hacks like this?

Some folk have also used various kinds of automatic brute-force searches to
look for "clever" ways to implement particular operations within the
limitations of a given instruction set.

Searching for super-optimiser (exclude "tax" and "finance") will find examples.

    -- chris


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bit twiddling hacks bob <bob@coolfone.comze.com> - 2013-03-04 15:09 -0800
  Re: bit twiddling hacks Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2013-03-04 17:29 -0600
  Re: bit twiddling hacks Johann Klammer <klammerj@NOSPAM.a1.net> - 2013-03-05 09:52 +0100
    Re: bit twiddling hacks bob <bob@coolfone.comze.com> - 2013-03-05 07:45 -0800
      Re: bit twiddling hacks Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2013-03-05 09:18 -0800
      Re: bit twiddling hacks Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2013-03-05 12:48 -0600
        Re: bit twiddling hacks "Chris Uppal" <chris.uppal@metagnostic.REMOVE-THIS.org> - 2013-03-06 07:54 +0000
  Re: bit twiddling hacks "Chris Uppal" <chris.uppal@metagnostic.REMOVE-THIS.org> - 2013-03-06 07:58 +0000
  Re: bit twiddling hacks Walter Banks <walter@bytecraft.com> - 2013-03-06 16:19 -0500

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