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Re:Ten Ways to Check if an Integer Is a Power Of Two in C by aidenn0 on Tuesday July 26, 2011 @03:12PM (#2808993)
That's multiplies, not divides. Modern CPUs are still faster at shifts than divides, even the pentium4, which lacked a single-cycle shift unit.
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