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In a lot of communication protocols. My Modbus class is basically composed of these, as all the classes that dialog with hardware - I had to write the driver for a I/O board with variable configurations that had to interface with a single falt array of values and these operations are the norm.

Non-standard checksums are so standard (pun intended) that it is fairly common having to write code like this... preparing data for SIMD processing also may involve maskings and shifts, as the normalization of data from analog or digital transducers. Many transducers have offsets to be weeded out as fast as possible, others are scrambled in strange ways (as first 4 bit of first channel, first four of second channel, fuirst foru of nth channel ... second four bits of first channel and so on) so to have a flat model you may need to perform these kind of operations.

Not the usual Web UI or accounting program of course.
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