Efficiency of Bit Shift
<p>Is a bit shift (of at least 1 position) on a short or byte faster (require fewer CPU cycles) than a bit shift on an integer (for AMD64 or x86 architecture)?  I suspect that the answer is no because the same 32 or 64 bit CPU instruction will be used in both cases and both will take the same amount of clock cycles.  Is that true?</p>