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by spencerflem 426 days ago
What's wrong with that? This is often a single CPU instruction and a lot of languages have support for it, including python

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamming_weight
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wslh 426 days ago
It was a positive comment about Swift showing the batteries included there. It is not normal to have such high-level methods for low-level stuff like bits in an integer. Clearly logical operations and rotation is included in all popular languages.
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spencerflem 426 days ago
Python has bit_count() as of semi recently :)

But I gotcha now, mistook "I wonder" as "I suspect it's not"

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