On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 07:27:22AM -0400, Brian Foster wrote: > Why do we replace the bit shifts with division/multiplication? I'd > prefer to see the former for obvious power of 2 operations, even if this > happens to be 32-bit arithmetic. I don't see any particular reason to > change it in this patch. Because it is the natural way to express the operation and matches what is said in the comments.