title: number of clock cycles in if statement in c program?
body: <p>Sorry i was not specific with the problem. i am trying to use intrinsic bit-parallelism of a system .a small part of the code is as follows-</p>
  
  <pre><code>int d;
  char ch1;
  char ch2;
  
  cin&gt;&gt;ch1&gt;&gt;ch2;
  if((d&amp;1) == 0) {                            
          //heavy computation
  }
      if(ch1 == ch2){
  //heavy computation
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>first if condition execute if lsb of d is set.
  how many clock cycles the two 'if' conditions require to execute?
  include the clock cycles required to convert the variable values in binary form.</p>