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Is there a case where '&' yields a lower performance than '%'? Does compiler optimize it automatically?

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The following two code sequences produce the same result:

uint mod = val % 4;   
uint mod1 = val & 0x3;

I can use both to calculate the same result. I know that in hardware the & operator is much more simpler realised than the % operator. Therefore I expect it to have a better performance than the % operator.

posted May 12, 2016 by Pratiksha Shetty

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