Alright. Here's a demo of alpha skip search on bitstrings. The needle size is fixed, but it should be trivial to follow this with a longer compare. A possibility exists that some off-by-one errors have crept in. If that's the case, just deduct from my paycheck. :-)

Alpha skip is quadratic in the worst case and probably not the best choice when nasty matches are expected. Anyway, I'm curious how this might hold up against the optimized brute-force routines.

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Note: to change the needle size, just edit the M and logM values. (Compile with -fno-strict-aliasing, or fix the type-punning).

In reply to Re^2: [OT] The interesting problem of comparing (long) bit-strings. by oiskuu
in thread [OT] The interesting problem of comparing bit-strings. by BrowserUk

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