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Some operations are uniform enough that, even though we might ordinarily think of them as using a predicate, they can nonetheless be done by direct manipulation of the underlying bit pattern.

Aug 10, 2026

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This is the fourteenth video in Part 5 of the Performance-Aware Programming series. Please see the Table of Contents to quickly navigate through the rest of the course as it is updated, and the code repository for downloadable code listings.