From: james.harris.1@nospicedham.gmail.com   
      
   A small programming challenge if you are interested, just for fun.   
      
   Say we want any value other than 0 in EAX to be reduced to 1 - e.g. so   
   that if non-zero means true but we want true to be 1.   
      
   Is there a faster solution than the naive   
      
        cmp eax, 0   
        je done   
        mov eax, 1   
      done:   
      
   Naturally, the speed of that will depend on how predictable the input   
   values are. Taking into account the usual suspect characteristics of x86   
   CPUs is there a generally faster solution?   
      
   I can think of three bit-twiddling ways but I'm not sure they would be   
   faster than the above. In fact, I think they might be slower. In any   
   case I'd be interested to see what others think. I suspect some of you   
   may already have a preferred solution.   
      
   So, any suggestions?   
      
      
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   James Harris   
      
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