Re: [avr-gcc-list] Trouble with division

[Ulrich Schweitzer]

On Sunday 15 June 2003 21:04, Joerg Wunsch wrote:

> Second, in particular division (but also software multiplication)
> heavily depends on the operands, so no single cycle count can be
> given.  Ulrich already noticed that division by a power of two goes a
> lot faster than division by other numbers.  So the worst case has to
> be timed if someone is interested (or just time the divisors you're
> interested in).

Of course divison by a power of two is very fast because it is just a bit 
shift and not really a division. Other than that, is a division really 
that operand-dependend?

Ulrich
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