Note: The same condition can be expressed with a single statement.
n += (~n > 0);
or
n += (~n != 0);
However this introduces an additional ~ operation for every loop.
An equivalent but more convoluted loop counts down:
size_t inverted_n = (std::numeric_limits<size_t>::max)();
while (do_one(INFINITE, this_thread, ec))
inverted_n -= (inverted_n != 0); //count "down" backwards from the max
return ~inverted_n; //so we can flip the result without doing ~'s at each step
Ultimately, each method should be checking the non-zero flag, so outside additional few nanoseconds worth of instructions they should be equivalent, main point is to remove an unnecessary branch. I've only modified the related the windows file as an example, and I'm not sure where the other implementation exists.
Note: The same condition can be expressed with a single statement.
n += (~n > 0);orn += (~n != 0);However this introduces an additional
~operation for every loop.An equivalent but more convoluted loop counts down:
Ultimately, each method should be checking the non-zero flag, so outside additional few nanoseconds worth of instructions they should be equivalent, main point is to remove an unnecessary branch. I've only modified the related the windows file as an example, and I'm not sure where the other implementation exists.