Dropping to C is indeed an option, but bit twiddling should be pretty darn fast in Perl too. To generate 1 million random numbers and process their bits took 4 seconds: 

my $stime = time;

for (1..1_000_000) {
   my $i = rand(4294967295);
   while ($i) {
      $count++ if $i>>=2;
   }
}

my $etime = time;
print($etime-$stime, " seconds to count the $count 1s in 32_000_000 bi
+ts\n");

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4 seconds to count the 14665902 1s in 32_000_000 bits

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Update: Oops! if $i>>=2; should be if ($i>>=2) & 1; as per reply.

In reply to Re^3: Read Bit String...!!! by ikegami
in thread Read Bit String...!!! by MimisIVI

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