Hey, this is my first post!
i was reading through some mangos source code and i'm really interested in how this emulator works. im quite new to c++ but i cant help but notice that people dont use bitwise operators. like so:
if (a&b)
{
action
}
instead of
if (a&&b)
{
action
}
now bitwise operators are faster. if 'a' is false it automaticly stops processing and return 0, it doesnt check the other variable. so i was interested and did some tests. this is what came out:
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bitwise [00]: 2235 nanoseconds result: false
bitwise [10]: 1676 nanoseconds result: false
bitwise [01]: 2235 nanoseconds result: false
bitwise [11]: 1676 nanoseconds result: true
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non bitwise [00]: 2793 nanoseconds result: false
non bitwise [10]: 1955 nanoseconds result: false
non bitwise [01]: 1955 nanoseconds result: false
non bitwise [11]: 1677 nanoseconds result: true
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as you can see, using bitwise operators is at least 10% faster then not using bitwise operators. for the testing i used:
if (a && b) {
result = true;
} else {
result = false;
}
the using of bitwise operators seems faster when using while, will this help you guys in any way?