Fastest way to produce a mask with n ones starting at position i

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Fastest way? I’d use something like this:

template <class T>
constexpr T make_mask(std::size_t pos, std::size_t len)
{
  return ((static_cast<T>(1) << len)-1) << pos;
}

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