diff --git a/src/libraries/System.Reflection.Metadata/src/System/Reflection/Internal/Utilities/BitArithmetic.cs b/src/libraries/System.Reflection.Metadata/src/System/Reflection/Internal/Utilities/BitArithmetic.cs
index 7743efa82511..8770d120aaec 100644
--- a/src/libraries/System.Reflection.Metadata/src/System/Reflection/Internal/Utilities/BitArithmetic.cs
+++ b/src/libraries/System.Reflection.Metadata/src/System/Reflection/Internal/Utilities/BitArithmetic.cs
@@ -7,22 +7,13 @@ internal static class BitArithmetic
     {
         internal static int CountBits(ulong v)
         {
-            unchecked
-            {
-                const ulong MASK_01010101010101010101010101010101 = 0x5555555555555555UL;
-                const ulong MASK_00110011001100110011001100110011 = 0x3333333333333333UL;
-                const ulong MASK_00001111000011110000111100001111 = 0x0F0F0F0F0F0F0F0FUL;
-                const ulong MASK_00000000111111110000000011111111 = 0x00FF00FF00FF00FFUL;
-                const ulong MASK_00000000000000001111111111111111 = 0x0000FFFF0000FFFFUL;
-                const ulong MASK_11111111111111111111111111111111 = 0x00000000FFFFFFFFUL;
-                v = (v & MASK_01010101010101010101010101010101) + ((v >> 1) & MASK_01010101010101010101010101010101);
-                v = (v & MASK_00110011001100110011001100110011) + ((v >> 2) & MASK_00110011001100110011001100110011);
-                v = (v & MASK_00001111000011110000111100001111) + ((v >> 4) & MASK_00001111000011110000111100001111);
-                v = (v & MASK_00000000111111110000000011111111) + ((v >> 8) & MASK_00000000111111110000000011111111);
-                v = (v & MASK_00000000000000001111111111111111) + ((v >> 16) & MASK_00000000000000001111111111111111);
-                v = (v & MASK_11111111111111111111111111111111) + ((v >> 32) & MASK_11111111111111111111111111111111);
-                return (int)v;
-            }
+            const ulong Mask01010101 = 0x5555555555555555UL;
+            const ulong Mask00110011 = 0x3333333333333333UL;
+            const ulong Mask00001111 = 0x0F0F0F0F0F0F0F0FUL;
+            const ulong Mask00000001 = 0x0101010101010101UL;
+            v = v - ((v >> 1) & Mask01010101);
+            v = (v & Mask00110011) + ((v >> 2) & Mask00110011);
+            return (int)(unchecked(((v + (v >> 4)) & Mask00001111) * Mask00000001) >> 56);
         }
     }
 }