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> Suppose that you want to reorder, arbitrarily, the bits in a 64-bit word. What's the application of this? Theres's a Twitter article in the next sentence, bu
by LispSporks22 3y ago
> Suppose that you want to reorder, arbitrarily, the bits in a 64-bit word.
What's the application of this? Theres's a Twitter article in the next sentence, but looks like I need to sign up to see it.
- trillic 3y agoCryptography
- dan-robertson 3y agoStatic reorderings can be used for some data layouts, eg interleaving the bits of an x and y coordinate, but you should hope they’d be cheaper than dynamic reordering.