On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 04:08, Alexander Kjeldaas < alexander.kjeld...@gmail.com> wrote:
> All search engines deal with compressed integers, all compressors do, and > most people doing bit-manipulation. Golomb, gamma, elias, rice coding, they > all need this. Heck, even the Intel engineers chose to optimize this > function by including the BSR instruction in the 386 architecture. This is > a basic building block. > > Don't underestimate the bit, it is coming back with a vengeance. Bit-coding > is everywhere now, because of the memory hierarchy. No haskeller should be > left behind. > Is it so basic that we must throw out the current meaning of bitSize, with all *its* uses, to satisfy yours? -- brandon s allbery allber...@gmail.com wandering unix systems administrator (available) (412) 475-9364 vm/sms
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