> Ahhh... those were the days.... bitshifting instead of multiplication & > dividing.... XORing a value by itself being quicker than setting it to zero > (seehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitwise_operation#XORif you think I'm making > this one up, it was certainly true on a Motorola 68000 embedded system I > worked on).
heh, that's still done on x86 but only because the instruction is smaller (so icache is used more efficiently), I don't think it's any faster. These sorts of tricks are a pain in java because of the lack of signed types anyway. Does anybody know a Java-like language that targets the JVM and fixes some of these annoyances? It doesn't have to be a big deviation from the standard, but some stuff is just soooooooo annoying ... --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
