Is there a trick for creating a faster integer modulus than the standard % operator for particular bases?
For my program, I'd be looking for around 1000-4000 (e.g. n%2048). Is there a quicker way to perform n modulus 2048 than simply: n%2048
?
If the denominator is known at compile time to be a power of 2, like your example of 2048, you could subtract 1 and do a bitwise-and.
That is:
n % m == n & (m - 1)
...where m
is a power of 2.
For example:
22 % 8 == 22 - 16 == 6
Dec Bin
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22 = 10110
8 = 01000
8 - 1 = 00111
22 & (8 - 1) = 10110
& 00111
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6 = 00110
Bear in mind that a good compiler will have its own optimizations for %
, maybe even enough to be as fast as the above technique. Arithmetic operators tend to be pretty heavily optimized.