From: "John M. Aldrich" <fighteer AT cs DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Help! Random is not working right
Date: Sun, 13 Apr 1997 02:38:47 -0700
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Erik Max Francis wrote:
> 
> It should be noted for people who are wondering why they've seen masks
> used this way is that masking is equivalent to a modulus operation (and
> much faster) when the modulo (one greater than the mask) is an even power
> of two.

It should also be noted that gcc is very smart when it comes to
optimizations, and will probably convert modulus operators into masks
when you're modding with powers of two.  It's okay to trust the
compiler!  ;)

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