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Writing a Bitset & Bitmask Helper Class with Fast Intrinsic Operations (POPCNT, CTZ)

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2y ago · Jan 19, 2024 10:12 AM

A lightweight compile-time Bitmask class leveraging hardware intrinsics: __popcnt64 (count bits), _BitScanForward64 (find lowest set bit).

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2y ago · Jan 19, 2024 5:00 PM

Bitset operations allow tracking thousands of active game flags in a single 64-bit integer with O(1) bitwise AND/OR/XOR.

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2y ago · Jan 20, 2024 8:00 PM

_mm_popcnt_u64 executes in a single CPU cycle, outperforming software loop bit counting by over 20x.

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