Thank you for the URL. On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:30:31 -0500, you wrote:

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 wrote:

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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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