How often is this doing work that the compiler is going to do for you anyway?

dahfizz · on May 11, 2018

I'm not sure I understand the question. The first one about detecting if x is odd or even is usually what the compiler will optimize the more common (x%2) == 0 to.

Other than that, these are things that you have to do yourself. You can't call compiler.setMySeventhBit();

If you need to be able to flip and check bits, you have to do it yourself.