Performance of bitwise operators in javascript?

You would want to use them when you want to do bitwise operations. Just like you'd use boolean operators to do boolean operations, and mathematical operators to do mathematical operations.

There is an NES emulator written in JavaScript - it seems to make plenty of use of bitwise operations.

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