Re: shift bits left 8

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John E. Franklin wrote:
> 
> Do I multiply an atom by 256 to shift bits left by 8 or
> is there a more efficient way like << in C ?

From the reference manual, I know that multiplying by 2 is optimized
 internally, and I think that power(2,x) is also. I don't know about multiplying
 by other multiples of 2.

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