After recently posting my first question on Stack Overflow (see For loop inside another for loop crashes in Javascript), I received a helpful answer from Ry- that seems to have solved my issue. However, as I dug into the code to understand how it works, I came across the perplexing statement "0x100000000 >>> 0".
My understanding of bitwise operators was recently acquired - the triple greater-than sign (>>>) shifts bits to the right by adding zeros at the leftmost end while dropping bits off from the right. So, shouldn't ">>> 0" technically have no impact on the equation?
Strangely enough, when I tried removing the bitwise operator from the code, it stopped functioning properly. Can someone shed light on why this is the case?
const world = document.getElementById('canvas');
const context = world.getContext('2d');
const start = performance.now();
const {width, height} = world;
const random32 = new Uint32Array(width * height);
for (let i = 0; i < random32.length; i++) {
//THIS IS WHERE MY CONFUSION LIES
random32[i] = Math.random() * 0x100000000 >>> 0;
}
Even though I thought removing ">>> 0" wouldn't make a difference, the code won't run without it.
I've been delving deeper into bitwise operators and Uint32Arrays but haven't found an explanation yet.