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Re:Popcount CPU instruction by tom_mellior on Monday September 09, 2019 @04:29AM (#20916209)
It's not recognizing a loop, but I've always liked the "turn integer division by a constant into a multiplication by a magic number" optimization: https://godbolt.org/z/Z0FgPW

This and many many other bit-twiddling hacks are described in Hacker's Delight: https://hackersdelight.org/. Compiler developers tend to go through this book and implement all the ones that seem interesting to them.

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