> if (b>0) return b;
> Doing an 'and' of two bytes and checking if the result is 0 probably
> requires masking operations on >8 bit processors...
Sometimes you can get a peek into how a JVM would optimize things by
looking at the asm output of the code from a C compiler.
Both (b>=0) and ((b&0x80)!=0) generated the exact same asm in gcc:
testb %al, %al
js L4
-Yonik
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