1. Re: Encrypting (and bit-shifting)
- Posted by William Eiten <atompunk at ROF.NET> Jul 12, 1997
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- Last edited Jul 13, 1997
> I found that there *is* a big difference in speed > between > (a) - dividing by 2 (or by a constant variable declared and set to 2) > (b) - dividing by some other integer than 2, or dividing by > an integer variable that was set to 2 on an earlier statement > > (a) was almost 5x faster than (b) on my Pentium because a right-shift is used, > rather than an integer divide, and because a couple of other > minor short-cuts are taken. I was just wondering, would it be faster to divide a number by 2 twice than to divide by 4? William