Glad it worked. There were a number of "unsigned" related operations added in 1.8. I cannot find any of the official doc, but here is a decent summarization of what was added: https://www.baeldung.com/java-unsigned-arithmetic
On Thu, Jul 18, 2024 at 11:16 AM Lasse Collin <lasse.col...@tukaani.org> wrote: > > On 2024-07-18 Brett Okken wrote: > > Did you try out the Integer.compareUnsigned method as an alternative? > > No, I was too dumb to even look for it. :-( This code was written when > Java 6 was the latest stable release, and back then it seemed that Java > was quite negative about supporting unsigned integers. > > Integer.compareUnsigned seems to give the same performance as the > "long" method on x86-64. So compareUnsigned is the obvious choice. I > have committed it to master. > > Thanks! > > -- > Lasse Collin
