In C or assembler, (or in Perl using pack) you can trivially reduce the size of the tables to 4MB instead of 40MB.
With a little ingenuity, you could reduce that to 1MB by expoiting the fact that each 32-bit value has 12 'spare' bits in the simple packed encoding.
Ie. For each of the 256k 32-bit values in a 1MB table, you reuse each 4 times:
...
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
0010 1100 1100 1001 1111 0000 0110 1101
...
Say:
- input value 0 would be encoded as nybbles 0,1,2,3,4 of the 32-bit value at offset 0.
- input value 256k as nybbles 1, 2, 3, 5, 7.
- input value 512k as nybbles 0, 2, 4, 6, 7.
- input value 784k as nybbles 1, 3, 4, 5, 6.
If you're really up against it you could get it down to a bare 73k by expoiting that there are 56 combinations of 5 nybbles in each 32-bit word.
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