Oct 25, 2010 · Bitwise operators evaluate both sides irrespective of the result of left hand side. But in the case of evaluating expressions with logical operators, the evaluation of the right …

Feb 4, 2014 · 139 The operators &, ^, and | are bitwise operators when the operands are primitive integral types. They are logical operators when the operands are boolean, and their behaviour …

Oct 22, 2013 · I just going through code someone has written and I saw |= usage, looking up on Java operators, it suggests bitwise or and assign operation, can anyone explain and give me …

What are some real world use cases of the following bitwise operators? AND XOR NOT OR Left/Right shift

Jul 22, 2012 · The Java type byte is signed which might be a problem for the bitwise operators. When negative bytes are extended to int or long, the sign bit is copied to all higher bits to keep …

I have to flip all bits in a binary representation of an integer. Given: 10101 The output should be 01010 What is the bitwise operator to accomplish this when used with an integer? For …

You cannot do bitwise shift operations on byte data type in Java programming language.

May 6, 2011 · There are no bitwise operations on boolean in Java. & and | don't do bitwise operations in Java, but logical operations (as specified in §15.22.2 of the JLS). & is the logical …

Jun 23, 2013 · I was reading through some code examples and came across a & on Oracle's website on their Bitwise and Bit Shift Operators page. In my opinion it didn't do too well of a …

Jun 15, 2012 · Bitwise operators avoid branching instructions, even in Java code execution. As a result you have no expensive branch prediction misses and no jumps at all. From my …