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I suspect that this is because the mask in your example is the result of a variable shift, which (a) has it’s own performance and flags hazards pre-SHLX and (b) requires additional µops to do with TEST. I expect that ICC is putting a dummy TEST or XOR ahead of the BT to break the false flags dependency, as well. If the mask were constant, I expect ICC would generate TEST instead (but I don’t