AFAIK the shift commands are no longer that much faster than say 32 Bit division because the FPU is heavily optimized and embeded in the CPU these days. And of course a language like Blitz will not map the shift commands directly to the CPU OPS because it has to catch parameter Errors. In the end it's mostly the Error handling that eats the power, the command itself is rather insignificantly timeconsuming.
Bit Shifting
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