From recent inspection of Kildorf's Map... thingy (for lack of a better term), I noticed he uses

x>>1

instead of

x/2

.

...Is it there just for making people gape at it's complexity, or are bitwise operators actually faster than normal ones?

**EDIT**
OK, I gave it a test, and found out that they pretty much have the same speed.
May this knowledge lie dormant for ever on the internet and attract billions of particles of cyberdust.

I assure you, bitshifts are faster than multiplying and dividing. You just won't notice the difference unless you have an absurb number of them.

-basil

Quote:Originally posted by Unimportant NPC (Anonymous)

I assure you, bitshifts are faster than multiplying and dividing. You just won't notice the difference unless you have an absurb number of them.

So you're saying they're fairly redundant unless you're a masochistic psychopath.

Quote:Originally posted by Interference22

Quote:So you're saying they're fairly redundant unless you're a masochistic psychopath.I'm not masochistic. :(