@nicbarkeragain It's cool, but unless you unroll the loop fully, it's still branching.

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@nicbarkeragain

It’s cool, but unless you unroll the loop fully, it’s still branching. Checking a loop counter is effectively an if statement.

And if you wanted to squeeze it more, maybe something like
sum += data[i].value & data[i].type
With A = 0 and B = -1

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