On Tuesday, 19 May 2015 at 05:16:48 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
So there's this classic trick:

bool isPowerOf2(uint x)
{
    return (x & (x - 1)) == 0;
}

which has no branches at least with dmd, see http://goo.gl/TVkCwc.

Any ideas for faster code?

If you dont mind asm then after you do...

tmp = x-1;

you could add the borrow/carry flag back onto the tmp, so it'd add back up to zero any time there's an underflow in the (x-1) op.

So two extra instructions, (you need a zero for the ADC) no branch.


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