On Wed, 26 Jul 2023 04:31:11 GMT, Dean Long <dlong at openjdk.org> wrote: > We don't need the & 3 if we do something like: > > `_value = newval ? 3 : 2;` That seems a lot better/clearer than casts and bit-wise operations. ------------- PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/14892#issuecomment-1651006722