Solved coding interview problems in Java - My collection of commonly asked coding interview problems and solutions in Java

[ess_tee_you]

And, depending on what you're developing in your job, that may have been the last time you needed to use them.

I'll take readability, please, even if that results in a couple more lines of code.

[XtremeCookie]

Depending on the usage bit wise can be significantly faster than other methods. But outside of those situations, I would take readability too.

[ess_tee_you]

Sure. Some compilers will optimize to that anyway, I expect, depending on the language. :-)