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Tag: performance

  • Making Sense of Bitwise Operations

    Each bit should be thought of as a “switch” that is either on or off, or, the bit is either set or not set. As a matter of fact, this precisely describes what a CPU does at the lowest level – flipping billions and billions (and counting!) of switches/bits. Perhaps, and that is a big […]