Re: [ANN] Lua 5.3.0 (work2) now available

[Coroutines <coroutines@...>]

On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 10:28 PM, Roberto Ierusalimschy
<roberto@inf.puc-rio.br> wrote:
>> I'm a bit ashamed to say that i do lol. Signum for example:
>>
>> static inline int sgn2(int x) { return (x != 0) * (1 | (x >> ((sizeof(x) * 8) - 1))); }
>
> "Hacker's Delight" suggests this:
>
>   -(x >> K) | (-x >> K), where K = sizeof(x) * 8 - 1.
>
> No conditionals, no multiplications, two logical shifts and three one-clock
> instructions (2 subs and 1 or).
>
> -- Roberto
>

...and a partridge in a pear tree ^__^