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Re:Computer Scientists’ Trivia by andreareina on Thursday February 02, 2017 @05:48AM (#13549596)
This is precisely the sort of thing you let the compiler worry about. Using godbolt.org I see that a constant multiplication by 30 is compiled to an `imul` in x86-64 (both clang and gcc) and `lsl`, `sub`, `lsl` in ARM64 (gcc).

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