Simple features that I've always missed from C...

Robert Jacques sandford at jhu.edu
Mon Oct 17 21:25:21 PDT 2011


On Mon, 17 Oct 2011 16:53:42 -0400, Manu <turkeyman at gmail.com> wrote:
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> *Count leading/trailing zeroes:* I don't know of any even slightly recent
> architecture that doesn't have opcodes to count loading/trailing zeroes,
> although they do exist, so perhaps this is a little dubious. I'm sure this
> could be emulated for such architectures, but it might be unreasonably slow
> if used...

D has this: check out std.intrinsic's bsr and bsl.


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