But all of these use a bit shift instead of the (I)DIV instruction. I wasn't saying compilers can't be stupid, but the AI-generated comment explicitly stated th

But all of these use a bit shift instead of the (I)DIV instruction. I wasn't saying compilers can't be stupid, but the AI-generated comment explicitly stated that the shift operation was more efficient than division, not that it would result in fewer instructions emitted. midpoint_rep_lodsb_handwritten: endbr64 movq $0x8000000000000000, %rax xorq %rax, %rsi ;convert two's complement to biased xorq %rax, %rdi addq %rsi, %rdi rcrq $1, %rdi xorq %rdi, %rax ;convert back ret (sorry if I got the syntax wrong, AT&T is just horrible)