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by 8jy89hui
1587 days ago
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Not really. It is harder for most programmers to read (a>>1) than the simpler (a/2) and in most modern programming languages the compiler will notice the division by a power of two and compile to bit shift operations in both cases. |
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Really depends on where you're coming from. Anyone who has dipped their toes in embedded programming will immediately know they are equivalent, and many will correct /2 to a bitshift, because that's what you want to happen.
I get that bit twiddling is obscure outside of low level programming, but bit shifts really is kindergarten stuff in this domain.