Awesome. Would you mind if I add a version like this to the article and acknowledge you?
Also, will anyone from Dyalog be at Code Mesh?
> One of the advantages seen in this wc function is our use of bit booleans rather than byte booleans. Packing 8 bits in a byte uses eight times less space, and can lead to drastic speed improvements: 2-8 times faster than even code which uses short ints.
I once rewrote a structured verilog compiler (when I was the sole full time employee at ChipScan.us); going from using bytes to store boolean values to packing the entire circuit's wire state into bits in a char* definitely helped a lot. Also marking that char* as restrict helped a lot, too :-)
Also, will anyone from Dyalog be at Code Mesh?
> One of the advantages seen in this wc function is our use of bit booleans rather than byte booleans. Packing 8 bits in a byte uses eight times less space, and can lead to drastic speed improvements: 2-8 times faster than even code which uses short ints.
I once rewrote a structured verilog compiler (when I was the sole full time employee at ChipScan.us); going from using bytes to store boolean values to packing the entire circuit's wire state into bits in a char* definitely helped a lot. Also marking that char* as restrict helped a lot, too :-)
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