Believe it or not, there are still programs that require blazingly fast bit operations. I used like ten different bit hacks for a game engine I wrote which uses

Believe it or not, there are still programs that require blazingly fast bit operations. I used like ten different bit hacks for a game engine I wrote which uses bitboards[1]. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitboard http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitboard