In C, would !~b ever be faster than b == 0xff ?
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From a long time ago I have a memory which has stuck with me that says comparisons against zero are faster than any other value (ahem Z80).
In some C code I'm writing I want to skip values which have all their bits set. Currently the type of these values is char
but may change. I have two different alternatives to perform the test:
if (!~b)
/* skip */
and
if (b == 0xff)
/* skip */
Apart from the latter making the assumption that b is an 8bit char whereas the former does not, would the former ever be faster due to the old compare to zero optimization trick, or are the CPUs of today way beyond this kind of thing?
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