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Comment by stassats

The tricks to avoid multiplication (and division) are probably worth a whole post.

  x * 6:
  lea eax, [rdi+rdi*2]
  add eax, eax

  x * 7:
  lea eax, [0+rdi*8]
  sub eax, edi
  
  x * 11:
  lea eax, [rdi+rdi*4]
  lea eax, [rdi+rax*2]
But with -Os you get imul eax, edi, 6

And on modern CPUs multiplication might not be actually all that slow (but there may be fewer multiply units).

parent stassats 11 months ago

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