On Fri, 15 Apr 2022 at 14:59, Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Apr 15, 2022, at 12:47:40, Tony Harminc wrote: > > > > ... it's obvious that if you want > > to rotate right, say 5 bits, you can instead rotate left 59 bits ... > > > Performance? Does the timing depend on the distance shifted? > Maybe model-dependedent. How much does it matter?
I can't imagine that any hardware actually rotates left 59 bits in that case, or even that bit strings are truly "rotated". This is surely just a conceptual view for programmers. Tony H.
