I don't know of any formal introductions to the topic but you can see them in action in these places too * some of Daniel Lemire's work in high performance dat

I don't know of any formal introductions to the topic but you can see them in action in these places too * some of Daniel Lemire's work in high performance data structures * the blog posts related to solving board games on https://nullprogram.com https://nullprogram.com * the articles about board representations on the chess programming wiki https://www.chessprogramming.org/Main_Page https://www.chessprogramming.org/Main_Page * Any explanation of Quake III's fast inverse square root