use strict; use warnings; use Inline 'C' => Config => BUILD_NOISY => 1, CLEAN_AFTER_BUILD => 0; use Inline 'C' => <<'END_C'; #include unsigned popcnt2( SV *sv ) { unsigned count = 0; #ifdef __LP64__ static const uint64_t m1 = UINT64_C(0x5555555555555555); static const uint64_t m2 = UINT64_C(0x3333333333333333); static const uint64_t m4 = UINT64_C(0x0f0f0f0f0f0f0f0f); static const uint64_t h01 = UINT64_C(0x0101010101010101); uint64_t x = (uint64_t) SvUVX( sv ); x = x - ((x >> 1) & m1); x = (x & m2) + ((x >> 2) & m2); x = (x + (x >> 4)) & m4; count += (unsigned) ((x * h01) >> 56); #else static const uint32_t m1 = UINT32_C(0x55555555); static const uint32_t m2 = UINT32_C(0x33333333); static const uint32_t m4 = UINT32_C(0x0f0f0f0f); static const uint32_t h01 = UINT32_C(0x01010101); uint32_t x = (uint32_t) SvUVX( sv ); x = x - ((x >> 1) & m1); x = (x & m2) + ((x >> 2) & m2); x = (x + (x >> 4)) & m4; count += (unsigned) ((x * h01) >> 24); #endif return count; } END_C use Benchmark qw( cmpthese ); my $start = 2 ** 32 - 42; my $end = $start + 1000000; cmpthese -3, { Six2 => sub { popcnt2($_) for $start .. $end }, };