Average of 3 long integers

Question

I have 3 very large signed integers.

long x = long.MaxValue;
long y = long.MaxValue - 1;
long z = long.MaxValue - 2;

I want to calculate th

Answer 1

I also tried it and come up with a faster solution (although only by a factor about 3/4). It uses a single division

public static long avg(long a, long b, long c) {
    final long quarterSum = (a>>2) + (b>>2) + (c>>2);
    final long lowSum = (a&3) + (b&3) + (c&3);
    final long twelfth = quarterSum / 3;
    final long quarterRemainder = quarterSum - 3*twelfth;
    final long adjustment = smallDiv3(lowSum + 4*quarterRemainder);
    return 4*twelfth + adjustment;
}

where smallDiv3 is division by 3 using multipliation and working only for small arguments

private static long smallDiv3(long n) {
    assert -30 <= n && n <= 30;
    // Constants found rather experimentally.
    return (64/3*n + 10) >> 6;
}

Here is the whole code including a test and a benchmark, the results are not that impressive.