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Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 17:12:44 -0800 (PST)
Subject: OT [Re: sparse using insane amounts of memory]
From: "Tommy Thorn" <tommy@numba-tu.com>
To: "Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: "Ivo van Doorn" <ivdoorn@gmail.com>,
	"Johannes Berg" <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
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Linus Torvalds said:
....
> Thus endeth Linus' "games with bits" lecture. It was probably more than you
> really wanted to know. There's a ton of games you can play with simple "x-1"
and
> bitmasking ops like this).

For anyone who enjoy this stuff (don't we all?), I heartily recommend Knuth's
recent "Bitwise Tricks and Techniques" Pre-Fascicle:
http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/news.html

Regards,
Tommy