I can't compare it with Knuth's fascicle, but the FXT book (linked to
from http://www.jjj.de/fxt/) has a whole chapter on bit wizardry and
is another excellent resource along these lines.
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 6:22 PM, Casey Hawthorne
If you haven't bought any of Knuth's fascicles yet, this is definitely the one to get.
"The Art of Computer Programming: Volume 4 Bitwise Tricks & Techniques Binary Decision Diagrams" Fascicle 1 Donald E. Knuth 2009
Describes basic "broadword" operations and an important class of data structures that can make computer programs run dozens - even thousands - of times faster.
I started a Haskell program using bitwise operations and then discarded them thinking them to low level.
I think one of the dangers of Haskell, is that I get carried away with medium and high level abstractions and think "everything" MUST be done that way.
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