Jan Engelhardt wrote:
To confuse you, coders with assembly or hardware background throw in
I doubt that. I'm good enough assembly to see this :)
equivalent bit operations to succinctly describe their visualisation
of solution space... Perhaps the writer _wanted_ you to pause and
think? Maybe the compiler produces better code? Try it and see.
It produces a simple CMP. Should not be inefficient, though.
Jan Engelhardt
I just compiled two identical program , one with "!=" and other with
"^". The assembly output is identical.
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