Optimization of color manipulation on XNA

Question

I profile my simple 2D XNA game. I found that 4% of all work time is done by a simple operator to add two colors, one of which is first multiplied by a float.

I need to call this method rogulthy 2,000 times per frame (for each fragment on the map), which gave me 120,000 times per second for XNA 60 frames per second. Even the minimum gain of a single call gives a huge impact on speed. But I just don’t know how I can make it more efficient.

    private void DoColorCalcs(float factor, Color color)
    {
        int mul = (int)Math.Max(Math.Min(factor * 255.0, 255.0), 0.0);
        tile.Color = new Color(
            (byte)Math.Min(tile.Color.R + (color.R * mul / 255), 255),
            (byte)Math.Min(tile.Color.G + (color.G * mul / 255), 255),
            (byte)Math.Min(tile.Color.B + (color.B * mul / 255), 255));

    }

EDIT: As suggested by Michael Stum:

    private void DoColorCalcs(float factor, Color color)
    {
        factor= (float)Math.Max(factor, 0.0);
        tile.Color = new Color(
            (byte)Math.Min(tile.Color.R + (color.R * factor), 255),
            (byte)Math.Min(tile.Color.G + (color.G * factor), 255),
            (byte)Math.Min(tile.Color.B + (color.B * factor), 255));
    }

This is a decrease in time use from 4% to 2.5%

Answer 1

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int factorTimes256;
tile.Color.R = Math.Max(255, tile.Color.R + (color.R * factorTimes256) / 256);
// same for G and B

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Answer 2

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private void DoColorCalcs(float factor, Color color)
{
    float mul = Math.Max(Math.Min(factor * 255.0f, 255.0f), 0.0f) / 255f; 
    tile.Color = new Color(
        (byte)Math.Min(tile.Color.R + (color.R * mul), 255),
        (byte)Math.Min(tile.Color.G + (color.G * mul), 255),
        (byte)Math.Min(tile.Color.B + (color.B * mul), 255));
}

, , tile.Color, , ( , , ):

private void DoColorCalcs(float factor, Color color)
{
    float mul = Math.Max(Math.Min(factor * 255.0f, 255.0f), 0.0f) / 255f;
    tile.Color.R = (byte)Math.Min(tile.Color.R + (color.R * mul), 255);
    tile.Color.G = (byte)Math.Min(tile.Color.G + (color.G * mul), 255);
    tile.Color.B = (byte)Math.Min(tile.Color.B + (color.B * mul), 255);
}

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