[racket-dev] Implementation of bit vectors

As I intend to use bitvectors to do fast set operations, and cardinality is a set operation, I wrote up a "fast count bits" function that should be rolled in for the vector implementation:
https://gist.github.com/4154642

It depends on the fixnum representation, so I don't imagine this being adaptable to the bignum implementation. Bignums would have to support this kind of thing natively, which I don't think is the case. However, if you know the bignum is a fixnum, you could use this.
-Ian
----- Original Message -----
From: "Matthew Flatt" <mflatt at cs.utah.edu>
To: "Jens Axel Søgaard" <jensaxel at soegaard.net>
Cc: dev at racket-lang.org
Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2012 9:28:28 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: Re: [racket-dev] Implementation of bit vectors

Nicely done. I've merged with minor changes, including renaming
`bit-vector-count' to `bit-vector-length' to be more consistent with
`vector' functions.

At Sat, 24 Nov 2012 20:33:12 +0100, Jens Axel Søgaard wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I have written an implementation of bit vectors intended to be part of
> the data collection.
> 
>     https://github.com/plt/racket/pull/176
> 
> Any comments on the implementation and documentation are welcome.
> The bit vector is represented as a vector of fixnums (packaged in a
> struct of course).
> 
> --
> Jens Axel Søgaard
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