Check out Concise [0] or Roaring Bitmaps [1] before rolling your own compressed bitset scheme. Wish I had known about these sooner. (I realize now this is offt

Check out Concise [0] or Roaring Bitmaps [1] before rolling your own compressed bitset scheme. Wish I had known about these sooner. (I realize now this is offtopic, as this is bit fields not bit sets; nevermind, but still it's interesting!) [0] http://arxiv.org/pdf/1004.0403.pdf http://arxiv.org/pdf/1004.0403.pdf [1] http://roaringbitmap.org/ http://roaringbitmap.org/