Yeah, it's a stupid question, which is why I was surprised that Google asked it to me twice, separated by a couple of years. What's funny is that 15 years late

Yeah, it's a stupid question, which is why I was surprised that Google asked it to me twice, separated by a couple of years. What's funny is that 15 years later, I actually had a use for popcnt, put it together with something that seemed expensive at the time, and wound up with a C program that exhaustively searched a problem space in .12 sec. On a single core, in a vm, on a laptop. So much for me trying GPU programming on that one. (as in , feckit, there aren't that many possibilities, we'll just count them all)