Most significant bit and bool to int conversions.

BenchmarkDotNet.Samples/Algo_MostSignificantBit.cs

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+using BenchmarkDotNet.Tasks;
+using System;
+using System.Collections.Generic;
+using System.Linq;
+using System.Text;
+
+namespace BenchmarkDotNet.Samples
+{
+    [Task(platform: BenchmarkPlatform.X64, jitVersion: BenchmarkJitVersion.LegacyJit)]
+    [Task(platform: BenchmarkPlatform.X64, jitVersion: BenchmarkJitVersion.RyuJit)]
+    public class Algo_MostSignificantBit
+    {
+        private const int N = 4001;
+        private readonly int[] numbers;
+        private readonly Random random = new Random(42);
+
+        public Algo_MostSignificantBit()
+        {
+            numbers = new int[N];
+            for (int i = 0; i < N; i++)
+                numbers[i] = random.Next();
+        }
+
+        [Benchmark]
+        public int MostSignificantDeBruijn()
+        {
+            int counter = 0;
+            for (int i = 0; i < N; i++)
+                counter += BitHelper.MostSignificantDeBruijn(numbers[i]);
+            return counter;
+        }
+
+        [Benchmark]
+        public int MostSignificantNaive()
+        {
+            int counter = 0;
+            for (int i = 0; i < N; i++)
+                counter += BitHelper.MostSignificantNaive(numbers[i]);
+            return counter;
+        }
+
+        [Benchmark]
+        public int MostSignificantShifted()
+        {
+            int counter = 0;
+            for (int i = 0; i < N; i++)
+                counter += BitHelper.MostSignificantShifted(numbers[i]);
+            return counter;
+        }
+
+        [Benchmark]
+        public int MostSignificantBranched()
+        {
+            int counter = 0;
+            for (int i = 0; i < N; i++)
+                counter += BitHelper.MostSignificantBranched(numbers[i]);
+            return counter;
+        }
+
+        public static class BitHelper
+        {
+            // Code taken from http://graphics.stanford.edu/~seander/bithacks.html#IntegerLogDeBruijn
+
+            private static readonly int[] MultiplyDeBruijnBitPosition = new int[]
+                {
+                    0, 9, 1, 10, 13, 21, 2, 29, 11, 14, 16, 18, 22, 25, 3, 30,
+                    8, 12, 20, 28, 15, 17, 24, 7, 19, 27, 23, 6, 26, 5, 4, 31
+                };
+
+            public static int MostSignificantDeBruijn(int v)
+            {
+                v |= v >> 1; // first round down to one less than a power of 2 
+                v |= v >> 2;
+                v |= v >> 4;
+                v |= v >> 8;
+                v |= v >> 16;
+
+                return MultiplyDeBruijnBitPosition[(uint)(v * 0x07C4ACDDU) >> 27];
+            }
+
+            public static int MostSignificantNaive(int n)
+            {
+                int r = 0;
+
+                n >>= 1;
+                while (n != 0)
+                {
+                    r++;
+                    n >>= 1;
+                }
+
+                return r;
+            }
+
+            private static readonly int[] BranchedValues = new int[] { 0,1,2,2,3,3,3,3,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4 };
+
+            public static int MostSignificantBranched(int x)
+            {
+                if (x == 0)
+                    return 0;
+
+                int r = 0;
+                if ((x & 0xFFFF0000) != 0) { r += 16 / 1; x >>= 16 / 1; }
+                if ((x & 0x0000FF00) != 0) { r += 16 / 2; x >>= 16 / 2; }
+                if ((x & 0x000000F0) != 0) { r += 16 / 4; x >>= 16 / 4; }
+                return r + BranchedValues[x] - 1;
+            }
+
+
+            public static int MostSignificantShifted(int n)
+            {
+                uint v = (uint)n;           // 32-bit value to find the log2 of 
+                uint r;                     // result of log2(v) will go here
+                uint shift;
+
+                unsafe
+                {
+                    bool cond = v > 0xFFFF;
+                    r = *(uint*)(&cond) << 4;
+
+                    v >>= (int)r;
+
+                    cond = v > 0xFF;
+                    shift = *(uint*)(&cond) << 3; v >>= (int)shift; r |= shift;
+
+                    cond = v > 0xF;
+                    shift = *(uint*)(&cond) << 2; v >>= (int)shift; r |= shift;
+
+                    cond = v > 0x3;
+                    shift = *(uint*)(&cond) << 1; v >>= (int)shift; r |= shift;
+
+                    r |= (v >> 1);
+
+                    return (int)r;
+                }
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}

BenchmarkDotNet.Samples/BenchmarkDotNet.Samples.csproj

@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@
     <WarningLevel>4</WarningLevel>
     <Prefer32Bit>false</Prefer32Bit>
     <LangVersion>5</LangVersion>
+    <AllowUnsafeBlocks>true</AllowUnsafeBlocks>
   </PropertyGroup>
   <ItemGroup>
     <Reference Include="System" />
@@ -46,6 +47,7 @@
   <ItemGroup>
     <Compile Include="Algo_BitCount.cs" />
     <Compile Include="Algo_Md5VsSha256.cs" />
+    <Compile Include="Algo_MostSignificantBit.cs" />
     <Compile Include="Cpu_BranchPerdictor.cs" />
     <Compile Include="Cpu_Ilp_Inc.cs" />
     <Compile Include="Il_ReadonlyFields.cs" />
@@ -58,6 +60,7 @@
     <Compile Include="Jit_Bce.cs" />
     <Compile Include="Cpu_MatrixMultiplication.cs" />
     <Compile Include="Cpu_Ilp_Max.cs" />
+    <Compile Include="Jit_BoolToInt.cs" />
     <Compile Include="Jit_Inlining.cs" />
     <Compile Include="Jit_InterfaceMethod.cs" />
     <Compile Include="Jit_LoopUnrolling.cs" />

BenchmarkDotNet.Samples/Jit_BoolToInt.cs

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+using BenchmarkDotNet.Tasks;
+using System;
+using System.Collections.Generic;
+using System.Linq;
+using System.Text;
+
+namespace BenchmarkDotNet.Samples
+{
+    [Task(platform: BenchmarkPlatform.X64, jitVersion: BenchmarkJitVersion.LegacyJit)]
+    [Task(platform: BenchmarkPlatform.X64, jitVersion: BenchmarkJitVersion.RyuJit)]
+    public class Jit_BoolToInt
+    {
+        private const int N = 1001;
+        private readonly bool[] bits;
+
+        public Jit_BoolToInt()
+        {
+            bits = new bool[N];
+            for (int i = 0; i < N; i++)
+                bits[i] = i % 2 == 0;
+        }
+
+        [Benchmark]
+        public int Framework()
+        {
+            int sum = 0;
+            for (int i = 0; i < N; i++)
+                sum += Convert.ToInt32(bits[i]);
+
+            return sum;
+        }
+
+        [Benchmark]
+        public int IfThenElse()
+        {
+            int sum = 0;
+            for (int i = 0; i < N; i++)
+                sum += bits[i] ? 1 : 0;
+
+            return sum;
+        }
+
+        [Benchmark]
+        public int UnsafeConvert()
+        {
+            int sum = 0;
+            unsafe
+            {
+                for (int i = 0; i < N; i++)
+                {
+                    bool v = bits[i];
+                    sum += *(int*)(&v);
+                }
+            }
+            return sum;
+        }
+    }
+}

BenchmarkDotNet.Samples/Program.cs

@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ static void Main(string[] args)
                 typeof(Jit_LoopUnrolling),
                 typeof(Jit_ArraySumLoopUnrolling),
                 typeof(Jit_Inlining),
+                typeof(Jit_BoolToInt),
                 typeof(Jit_Bce),
                 typeof(Jit_InterfaceMethod),
                 typeof(Cpu_Ilp_Inc),
@@ -27,6 +28,7 @@ static void Main(string[] args)
                 typeof(Math_DoubleSqrt),
                 typeof(Math_DoubleSqrtAvx),
                 typeof(Algo_BitCount),
+                typeof(Algo_MostSignificantBit),
                 typeof(Algo_Md5VsSha256)
             });
             competitionSwitch.Run(args);

BenchmarkDotNet.sln

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 
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 EndProject
@@ -25,4 +25,7 @@ Global
 	GlobalSection(SolutionProperties) = preSolution
 		HideSolutionNode = FALSE
 	EndGlobalSection
+	GlobalSection(CodealikeProperties) = postSolution
+		SolutionGuid = d2cbc5be-205d-41dd-a90d-d625822471e3
+	EndGlobalSection
 EndGlobal