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Comment by wholesomepotato

it's one XOR, SHL, OR, SHR, AND, on some archs the shifts might come free with the other instruction. I'd expect it to be faster.

a = v ^ 0x30303030lu // normalize to digits 0xXX0a0b0c

b = (a << 12) | a // combine into XXXXXbacb0c

idx = (b >> 12) & 0xfff // get bac

res = lookup[idx]

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