1996-02-18 - Counting bits Fast

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From: norm@netcom.com (Norman Hardy)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
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UTC Datetime: 1996-02-18 06:29:21 UTC
Raw Date: Sun, 18 Feb 1996 14:29:21 +0800

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From: norm@netcom.com (Norman Hardy)
Date: Sun, 18 Feb 1996 14:29:21 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Counting bits Fast
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I hear that there may be those out there burning many compute cycles
counting one bits in piles of data.  There is code at
http://www.MediaCity.com/~norm/Hamming.html
that might provide a factor of ten over more obvious bit counting code.







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