On 6/15/2018 9:56 AM, Ramsay Jones wrote:

On 15/06/18 04:32, Jeff King wrote:
We don't call this function, and never have. The on-disk
bitmap format uses network-byte-order integers, meaning that
we cannot use the native-byte-order format written here.

Let's drop it in the name of simplicity.
Hmm, if you are in the mood to drop ewah dead code, how about:

   ewah/bitmap.o   - bitmap_clear
   ewah/bitmap.o   - bitmap_each_bit
   ewah/ewah_bitmap.o      - ewah_and
   ewah/ewah_bitmap.o      - ewah_and_not
   ewah/ewah_bitmap.o      - ewah_not
   ewah/ewah_bitmap.o      - ewah_or

... in addition to these *(de)serialize* functions. ;-)


Normally, I would say we should keep this folder as close to the "original" [1] as possible, so we could more easily take improvements to that library. However, it appears that code is not being updated. Perhaps this is in favor of other EWAH libraries [2] or other compressed bitmap formats [3].

For that reason, I agree we should clean this up. We shouldn't block Peff's patch for that reason. I'll send a patch that deletes these methods.

Thanks,
-Stolee:

[1] https://github.com/vmg/libewok

[2] https://github.com/lemire/EWAHBoolArray

[3] https://github.com/RoaringBitmap/CRoaring

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