Speed hack dirty?

Tim Rowledge rowledge at interval.com
Tue Jan 20 17:47:13 UTC 1998


On Mon 19 Jan, Gerardo Richarte wrote:
> Christopher Oliver wrote:
> > 
> > In my cryptology program, I need to rotate a 32 bit value by a multiple
> > of eight bits.  I started with:
You might find it worth adding a new prim to do this; it wouldn't cost much effort and would probably be a welcome addition to the system generally.
Just another thought though - if you have a large number of values to do the same rotate to, it might work to use bitblt!

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