Re: bit_ffs

"Ruud H.G. van Tol" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mathematics.pari.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2023-03-30 19:02, Ruud H.G. van Tol wrote:
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> Might be interesting to add:
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> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Find_first_set
> https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/ffs.3.html
> https://www.go4expert.com/articles/builtin-gcc-functions-builtinclz-t29238/ 
>
>
> Or are those too low-level?
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> bit_ffs, bit_ctz

Count trailing set bits:

bit_cts(n) = logint( 1 + bitand(n, bitneg(n) - 1), 2 )

(no idea yet if that is a good implementation)

Would also be nice to have a turbo version of that.

-- Ruud
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