Hamming Distance @LeetCode

PROBLEM :

The Hamming distance between two integers is the number of positions at which the corresponding bits are different.

Given two integers x and y, calculate the Hamming distance.

Note:
0 = x, y < 2^31.

Example:

Input: x = 1, y = 4

Output: 2

Explanation:
1   (0 0 0 1)
4   (0 1 0 0)
          ^   ^

The above arrows point to positions where the corresponding bits are different.

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SIMPLE c++ IMPLEMENTATION :
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class Solution {
public:
    int hammingDistance(int x, int y) {
        int Xor=(x^y) ;
        int diff=0 ;
     
        while(Xor){
            Xor=(Xor&(Xor-1)) ;
            diff++ ;
        }
        return diff ;
    }
};

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