• resistor mac.com Sep 16 2003
• John Boucher <John_member pathlink.com> Sep 16 2003
• resistor mac.com Sep 16 2003
• "Sean L. Palmer" <palmer.sean verizon.net> Sep 17 2003
• "Charles Sanders" <sanders-consulting comcast.net> Sep 17 2003
• "Sean L. Palmer" <palmer.sean verizon.net> Sep 19 2003

resistor mac.com writes:

Hey folks!

I have a question about something i'm trying to write in D.  I have two arrays
of 144 bits, and I 
need to XOR them, and store the result in yet a third array of 144 bits.  Any
suggestions on how to 
do this?  Do the bit arrays need to be dynamic or static?  I'm just a tad
confused!

Thanks,
Owen Anderson

John Boucher <John_member pathlink.com> writes:

In article <bk7u0c$1tb9$1 digitaldaemon.com>, resistor mac.com says...
Hey folks!

I have a question about something i'm trying to write in D.  I have two arrays
of 144 bits, and I 
need to XOR them, and store the result in yet a third array of 144 bits.  Any
suggestions on how to 
do this?  Do the bit arrays need to be dynamic or static?  I'm just a tad
confused!

Thanks,
Owen Anderson


Uhhh... Use != to xor bits, and use a for statement to walk the array?

John Boucher
The King had Humpty pushed

resistor mac.com writes:

In article <bk7vhl$23mn$1 digitaldaemon.com>, John Boucher says...
In article <bk7u0c$1tb9$1 digitaldaemon.com>, resistor mac.com says...
Hey folks!

I have a question about something i'm trying to write in D.  I have two arrays
of 144 bits, and I 
need to XOR them, and store the result in yet a third array of 144 bits.  Any
suggestions on how to 
do this?  Do the bit arrays need to be dynamic or static?  I'm just a tad
confused!

Thanks,
Owen Anderson


Uhhh... Use != to xor bits, and use a for statement to walk the array?

John Boucher
The King had Humpty pushed


Is it not possible to use an array operator to do all of them at once?  And
also, isn't ^ the XOR 
operator?  That's what the documentation says, but I suppose it could be wrong.

Owen Anderson

"Sean L. Palmer" <palmer.sean verizon.net> writes:

<resistor mac.com> wrote in message news:bk81nb$2bh3$1 digitaldaemon.com...
 In article <bk7vhl$23mn$1 digitaldaemon.com>, John Boucher says...
In article <bk7u0c$1tb9$1 digitaldaemon.com>, resistor mac.com says...
Hey folks!

I have a question about something i'm trying to write in D.  I have two






of 144 bits, and I
need to XOR them, and store the result in yet a third array of 144 bits.






suggestions on how to
do this?  Do the bit arrays need to be dynamic or static?  I'm just a






confused!

Thanks,
Owen Anderson


Uhhh... Use != to xor bits, and use a for statement to walk the array?

John Boucher
The King had Humpty pushed


 Is it not possible to use an array operator to do all of them at once?


 also, isn't ^ the XOR
 operator?  That's what the documentation says, but I suppose it could be


 Owen Anderson


There was a plan once upon a time to implement operations on entire arrays
at once, and if that ever gets implemented you'll be able to do something
like this:

bit[144] a, b, c;
a[] = b[] ^ c[];  // could use != instead of ^... ^ returns each bit, !=
only returns one bit and only acts like an xor if used on single bits

Sean

"Charles Sanders" <sanders-consulting comcast.net> writes:

Isnt there some special CPU instruction set that ill apply an operation to
an array or matrix or something, vectorizing compilers or something like
that ?

Charles

"Sean L. Palmer" <palmer.sean verizon.net> wrote in message
news:bka32e$2km1$1 digitaldaemon.com...
 <resistor mac.com> wrote in message


 In article <bk7vhl$23mn$1 digitaldaemon.com>, John Boucher says...
In article <bk7u0c$1tb9$1 digitaldaemon.com>, resistor mac.com says...
Hey folks!

I have a question about something i'm trying to write in D.  I have








 arrays
of 144 bits, and I
need to XOR them, and store the result in yet a third array of 144








 Any
suggestions on how to
do this?  Do the bit arrays need to be dynamic or static?  I'm just a






confused!

Thanks,
Owen Anderson


Uhhh... Use != to xor bits, and use a for statement to walk the array?

John Boucher
The King had Humpty pushed


 Is it not possible to use an array operator to do all of them at once?


 also, isn't ^ the XOR
 operator?  That's what the documentation says, but I suppose it could be


 Owen Anderson


 There was a plan once upon a time to implement operations on entire arrays
 at once, and if that ever gets implemented you'll be able to do something
 like this:

 bit[144] a, b, c;
 a[] = b[] ^ c[];  // could use != instead of ^... ^ returns each bit, !=
 only returns one bit and only acts like an xor if used on single bits

 Sean

"Sean L. Palmer" <palmer.sean verizon.net> writes:

There certainly is.  It is usually a bit more limited than the normal
instruction set but enough to get most jobs done, with a quickness.  ;)

My coworker just wrote a function for PS2 that processes 16 triangle
bounding boxes at the same time, using a few min/max/compare instructions.

It would be nice if in D you could express this as simply as:

typedef byte[16] b16;
extern b16 a,b,c;
b16 res = a[] + b[] < c[] && a[] - b[] > c[];

Sean

"Charles Sanders" <sanders-consulting comcast.net> wrote in message
news:bkaj99$aq1$1 digitaldaemon.com...
 Isnt there some special CPU instruction set that ill apply an operation to
 an array or matrix or something, vectorizing compilers or something like
 that ?

 Charles

 "Sean L. Palmer" <palmer.sean verizon.net> wrote in message
 news:bka32e$2km1$1 digitaldaemon.com...
 There was a plan once upon a time to implement operations on entire




 at once, and if that ever gets implemented you'll be able to do




 like this:

 bit[144] a, b, c;
 a[] = b[] ^ c[];  // could use != instead of ^... ^ returns each bit, !=
 only returns one bit and only acts like an xor if used on single bits

 Sean