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by DullPointer 192 days ago
ARM is a big target, there could be cpus where lsl is 1 cycle and add is 2+.

Without knowing about specific compiler targets/settings this looks reasonable.

Dumb in the majority case? Absolutely, but smart on the lowest common denominator.

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> Without knowing about specific compiler targets/settings this looks reasonable.

But we do, armv8-a clang 21.1.0 with O3, and it doesn't.

> […] but smart on the lowest common denominator.

No, that would be the single add instruction.