Hello eyepopslikeamosquito,

The CPAN module Bit::Fast has a function popcountl, implemented in C, which operates on 64-bit integers and is claimed to be fast.

Disclaimer: I haven’t been able to test it because — although I have a 64-bit OS and a 64-bit Perl with USE_64_BIT_INT defined — my Perl was apparently built with LONGSIZE defined as 4, not 8, so (with use Config) $Config{longsize} == 4 and popcountl doesn’t get built. I confess I don’t understand the issues involved here — maybe just a configuration problem?

Anyway, hope that’s of interest,

Athanasius <°(((>< contra mundum Iustus alius egestas vitae, eros Piratica,

In reply to Re: How to do popcount (aka Hamming weight) in Perl by Athanasius
in thread How to do popcount (aka Hamming weight) in Perl (popcount References) by eyepopslikeamosquito

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.