alexbowe
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Comment · 2 years ago
Interesting read, thanks for sharing!
If you have some benchmark results, it'd be great to see how it compares to traditional data structures in practice, for different datasets and varying k-mer lengths
Comment · 11 years ago
I'm an ex-Melbournite doing a PhD in bioinformatics algorithms (and succinct data structures) in Tokyo.
I'm mainly interested in co-working spaces for cross-pollination of ideas, and friendly challenges.
So, if anyone in Tokyo wants to meet up to work on some stuff (together or separately, but in proximity), let me know.
Comment · 13 years ago
Although not part of the language proper, C++'s STL has vector<bool> that packs boolean flags into a bitvector (a now regrettable optimisation, since it doesn't function the way a container should - a story for another time). There is also bitset, which is similar but static.
Erlang has a beautiful language feature for this: http://www.erlang.org/doc/programming_examples/bit_syntax.ht... It uses pattern matching to unpack variable length fields in a bitvector. So beautiful.
Edit: Check arianvanp's post above https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5506902
Comment · 13 years ago
I use them whenever I need to. Often I don't need to, since a compiler should be able to optimise the very basic things. Optimising prematurely is a good way to stuff something up (see question 5 here: http://ridiculousfish.com/blog/posts/will-it-optimize.html)
And it hurts readability.
I would expect most good programmers to know at least some basic "tricks" though (and would hope they have the sense to not over use them).
Comment · 14 years ago
It's cool :) and I just want to say that the readme is awesome. I love developers who communicate :P
Comment · 14 years ago
I'm interested in the paper too of course :D
Comment · 14 years ago
Thanks ot! :) I loved writing them and I hope it shows.
Where is your blog at?
Yes I was tempted to write a wiki page before...
Comment · 14 years ago
Thanks! I'll keep visiting ^^ looks interesting as it is
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