Counting bits

Eli Brandt ebrandt at jarthur.cs.hmc.edu
Wed Jul 6 19:58:09 PDT 1994


> Why bother when you can simply do an eight line function?
[ unrolled loop approach deleted ]

1. Speed.  For bytes it probably doesn't matter much, but it
will if you're operating on full words.

2. Why write straightforward code if you don't have to?  ;-)

   Eli   ebrandt at hmc.edu







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