A loop continuouly runs 3Y/8. In intel processor, how to optimize the speed of this computation: 3Y/8
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Ancient Dragon 5,243 Achieved Level 70 Team Colleague Featured Poster
what is 3Y/8??
rubberman 1,355 Nearly a Posting Virtuoso Featured Poster
If 3Y is an integer value (up to 64-bits), then to divide by 8 you can use a right-shift operator, shifting 3 places (2^3 == 8). IE,int64_t result = ((3*Y) >> 3);
This won't work for floating point values, however.
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