Wrote my first real blog post. Let me know what you guys think!

The repeated division trick has a quicker counterpart, which is to create a separate variable and repeatedly multiply that by 10, comparing to the original as it goes. Probably not as fast as anything beyond the repeated division trick, but I mention it because its rediscovery was likely missed by jumping right to clzl tricks.

It also generalises a lot more readily to numbers in other bases. Kind of a "jack of all trades, master of none" solution.

Amazing. It's so weird, I was just needing to do this same operation and was looking into some of the bithacks. Although I don't have the ability in the language to fully utilize this, I am astounded by how lean you made it.

Fun read, thanks for sharing ♥️

Fun read.

So there is a faster one in Africa or Asia? Then why not use that?

How do you generate your charts? They're very nice

Impressive work and an interesting write-up. Kudos!

As someone who rarely programs anything, and who hasn’t touched assembly for over 40 years, that was a great read and a fascinating (math) journey.