Performance Question

neither

seeing as at compile time it''ll get converted too..

if ( a & 0x0000000A )

why goto the hassle

Assuming that you know they both don''t do the same thing, #2 will be faster a higher percentage of the time (in general). Sometimes they''ll be equal in speed, however.

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Thanks for all your replies, and I''ll take it all into consideration.

Optimizations on this level save you at most a few CPU ticks (i.e. a few nanoseconds on today''s PCs), so it really doesn''t matter unless you perform the operation literally tens of million times per second.

Optimization in games today are about better scene graph management - things like BSP trees perform well no matter how slowly they''re implemented because they save orders of magnitude more time than they take to execute.

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Original post by level10boy
Can anyone tell what is faster, bitwise comparisons or logical comparaisons. For example is, which of the following is faster?

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As the Anonymous Poster mentioned, your first example isn't a bitwise comparison but a logical one (with a slightly different set of rules). Here's an even better example:

int a = 5;
int b = 2;
if(a && b)
  cout << "equal" endl; // will execute
 

Guess why?

Edit: formatting.

Edited by - Oluseyi on October 23, 2001 2:54:23 AM