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Bitwise operators

TypeScript supports the following bitwise operators. To understand the examples, you must assume that variable A holds 2 as value and variable B holds 3 as value:

Operator	Description	Example
`&`	Known as the bitwise `AND` operator, it performs a boolean `AND` operation on each bit of its integer arguments.	(A & B) is 2
`\|`	Known as the bitwise `OR` operator, it performs a boolean `OR` operation on each bit of its integer arguments.	(A \| B) is 3.
`^`	Known as the bitwise `XOR` operator, it performs a boolean exclusive `OR` operation on each bit of its integer arguments. Exclusive `OR` means that either operand one is true or operand two is true, but not both.	(A ^ B) is 1.
`~`	Known as the bitwise `NOT` operator, it is a unary operator and operates by reversing all bits in the operand.	(~B) is -4
`<<`	Known as the bitwise shift-left operator. It moves all bits in its first operand to the left by the number of places specified in the second operand. New bits are filled with zeros. Shifting a value left by one position is equivalent to multiplying by two, shifting two positions is equivalent to multiplying by four, and so on.	(A << 1) is 4
`>>`	Known as the bitwise shift-right with sign operator. It moves all bits in its first operand to the right by the number of places specified in the second operand.	(A >> 1) is 1
`>>>`	Known as the bitwise shift-right with zero operators. This operator is just like the `>>` operator, except that the bits shifted from the left are always zero.	(A >>> 1) is 1

One of the main reasons to use bitwise operators in languages such as C++, Java, or C# is that they're extremely fast. However, bitwise operators are often considered not that efficient in TypeScript and JavaScript. The bitwise operators are less efficient in JavaScript, because it is necessary to cast from floating-point representation (how JavaScript stores all of its numbers) to a 32-bit integer to perform the bit manipulation and back.