R. David Murray added the comment: Oh, my apologies. I was not reading your message with enough attention, you are only talking about the zero case. A check for zero would not be crazy, and I think there are enough operations involved in left shift that the performance impact would not be measurable. I'll leave that to the math experts, though.
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