Still in a learning process, not better than a mediocre student

I've spent a good amount of time in this Industry. Learned how to write good simple program and trying to learn more to reach to intermediate level. Journey was mix of reward and hardwork. Met people with different dimension, different skill set and lately realized I'm not only the person who wants to excel truly by learning the system more and more. Anyway in few upcomming series, I'll reveal some good approaches which I've learned so far by introspection. Will look more into the digital system and will see how it similar to our daily concepts.

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October 16, 2021 at 10:56 AM

XOR (Exclusive OR) for branchless coding

The following example shows the array reversing using the XOR operator . No need to take any additional variable to reverse the array. int main(int argc, _TCHAR* argv[]) { char str[] = "I AM STUDENT"; int length = strlen(str); for(int i = 0; i < ((length/2)); i++) { str[i] ^= str[length - (1+i)]; str[length - (1+i)] ^= str[i]; str[i] ^= str[length - (1+i)]; } cout << str << endl; return 0; } The above example is one of the uses of XOR but XOR comes in handy when we can do branchless coding methods like butterfly switch etc. Sometimes this is very effective in speeding up the execution. Let's see one of the uses of XOR in branchless coding. I am taking a simple example of Y = | X |. Yes, I am generating abs of a supplied number. So, my function signature/definition in C++ looks like below: int absoluteBranch( int x) { if (x < 0 ) { return ...

Reversing char array without splitting the array to tokens

I was reading about strdup, a C++ function and suddenly an idea came to my mind if this can be leveraged to aid in reversing a character array without splitting the array into words and reconstructing it again by placing spaces and removing trailing spaces. Again, I wanted an array to be passed as a function argument and an array size to be passed implicitly with the array to the function. Assumed, a well-formed char array has been passed into the function. No malformed array checking is done inside the function. So, the function signature and definition are like below: Below is the call from the client code to reverse the array without splitting tokens and reconstructing it. Finally, copy the reversed array to the destination. For GNU C++, we should use strdup instead _strdup . On run, we get the following output: Demo code

Power of Two

I n this post will be discussing how to calculate if a number is a power of two or not. As an example, 8 is a power of two but the number 10 is not. There are many ways we can solve this. First , we will take an approach which is simple and iterative. In this case, we will calculate the power of two one by one and check with the supplied number. The below code illustrates it. bool isPowerofTwo(unsigned num) { auto y = 1; while (0 != y) { if (num == y) return true; if (num < y) return false; y <<= 1; } return false; } Second , assuming, the number is a 32-bit number, this is also an iterative solution. In this scenario, iterating all bits and counting the set bits. Any number which is a power of 2 will have only one bit set and the rest will be zeros. As an example, 8 in binary representation is 1000. Using this observation, we can implement an iterative solution. bool isPowerofTwo(unsigned num) { auto one_count = 0; for (auto index = 0; index < ...

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