Efficient addressing method and apparatus for storage

摘要

A method and apparatus is used select a multiplication constant for addressing a storage location with reduced processing requirements. The selection includes receiving a multiplication constant for use in an arithmetic operation to address a storage location, determining an upper limit multiplication constant compared with the received multiplication constant, counting the number of zero digits for each binary value contained in the range of binary values greater than the multiplication constant value and less than or equal to the upper limit multiplication constant and selecting the binary value from the range having the greatest number of zero digits as the modified multiplication constant.