I haven't personally experienced a need for a bit twiddling API, but if you're looking for other interesting operations, you might want to check out the awesome-bits curated list of bitwise operations [1].
[1] https://github.com/keonkim/awesome-bits On Monday, January 9, 2017 at 3:46:45 PM UTC-8, mo...@google.com wrote: > > Hello! > > I'm working on a proposal for a compiler/hardware supported bittwidling > API. See discussion at https://github.com/golang/go/issues/17373. The > current set of functions I have in mind are: count trailing zeros, count > leading zeros, byte swap and population count for 32 and 64 bits integers. > Which other functions do you thing should be in this API? What are the > popular packages that implement (even without exporting) a subset of these > functions? > > Regards, > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
