Bi-endianess Bit Vector

bitset is Bit Vector (Array) library supporting both Little Endian and Big Endian for Golang.

bitset write bit vector to byte array with specified endianness (Little Endian or Big Endian) regardless of host endianness. It enables to transfer a file holding bit vector to different endianness machine without any conversion process.

bitset calculate each bit in uint64. bitset switches optimized bit vector operation (Set、Unset、Get etc...) by each host endianness.

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Features

• Zero Copy : Cast []byte provided by user to []uint64 without any memory copy using unsafe package.
• Bi-Endianness : Switches bit vector operation by host endianness (Little Endian or Big Endian)
• Compatibility : Ready to transfer a file holding bit vector to different endianness machine without any conversion process

Example

func main() {
	// in memory usage
	buf := make([]byte, 2*8)
	b, _ := bitset.New(buf, binary.LittleEndian, true)
	for _, v := range []uint{0, 1, 3, 6, 10, 64, 127, 128} {
		b.Set(v) // when v == 128, auto extend vector and it returns true
	}
	fmt.Println(buf) // [75 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 128]

	b.Unset(127)
	fmt.Println(b.Get(127)) // false

	for v, ok := b.FindFirstOne(0); ok; v, ok = b.FindFirstOne(v + 1) {
		fmt.Println(v) // 0 1 3 6 10 64
	}

	// File + mmap usage
	const pageSize = 4 * 1024
	f, _ := os.OpenFile("example.bit", os.O_RDWR|os.O_CREATE, 0666)
	f.Truncate(pageSize)
	buf, _ = syscall.Mmap(int(f.Fd()), 0, pageSize,
		syscall.PROT_READ|syscall.PROT_WRITE,
		syscall.MAP_SHARED)
	defer func() {
		f.Sync()
		syscall.Munmap(buf)
		f.Close()
	}()

	b, _ = bitset.New(buf, binary.BigEndian, false)
	for v, ok := b.FindFirstOne(0); ok; v, ok = b.FindFirstOne(v + 1) {
		fmt.Println(v) // 0 1 3 6 10 64  if executed twice
	}
	for _, v := range []uint{0, 1, 3, 6, 10, 64, 127, 128} {
		b.Set(v) // when v == 128, returns false because overflow. not extend vector
	}
	fmt.Println(buf) // [0 0 0 0 0 0 4 75 128 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 ....
}

Installation

go get github.com/kawasin73/bitset

Notices

• Length of the buffer ([]byte) provided by user MUST be a multiple of 8. (or New() returns error bitset.ErrInvalidLength)
• bitset supports only Little Endian and Big Endian, not middle endian or other endianness.
• bitset does not auto expand provided buffer if extend (New() 3rd argument) is false. If you need to expand bit vector then re-create bitset.BitVec with expanded buffer by user.
• Supports Go Version > 1.9. using math/bits package.

LICENSE

MIT