On Tue, 9 Mar 2010, Gary Mort wrote: > In the beginning, it was a simple matter of what is the FASTEST comparison > one can make - and an integer is pretty dang close to the fast[bitwise > comparisons being even better]
<puts on assembly language hat> Not necessarily, bit operations may generate more machine code instructions than a straight integer comparison would and therefore more clock cycles :-) -- Aj. _______________________________________________ New York PHP Users Group Community Talk Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk http://www.nyphp.org/Show-Participation
