bit_reverse 0.1.8

//! ## Library Objective
//! This library provides a number of ways to compute the bit reversal of all primitive integers.
//! There are currently 3 different algorithms implemented: Bitwise, Parallel, and Lookup reversal.
//!
//! ## Example
//! ```
//! use bit_reverse::ParallelReverse;
//!
//! assert_eq!(0xA0u8.swap_bits(), 0x05u8);
//! ```
//! This library is very simple to uses just import the crate and the algorithm you want to use.
//! Then you can call `swap_bits`() on any primitive integer. If you want to try a different
//! algorithm just change the use statement and now your program will use the algorithm instead.
//!
//! ## YMMV Performance Comparison
//! I wouldn't use `BitwiseReverse` as it is mainly there for completeness and is strictly inferior
//! to `ParallelReverse`, which is a Bitwise Parallel Reverse and thus an order of magnitude faster.
//! For small sizes, <= 16 bits, `LookupReverse` is the fastest but it doesn't scale as well as
//! `ParallelReverse` this is because `ParallelReverse` does a constant number of operations for
//! every size (assuming your cpu has a hardware byte swap instruction). `LookupReverse` needs more
//! lookups, ANDs, and ORs for each size increase. Thus `ParallelReverse` performs a little better
//! at 32 bits and much better at 64 bits. These runtime characteristics are based on a Intel(R)
//! Core(TM) i7-4770K CPU @ 3.50GHz.
//!
//! ## Memory Consumption
//! `BitwiseReverse` and `ParallelReverse` both only use a couple of stack variables for their
//! computations. `LookupReverse` on the other hand statically allocates 256 u8s or 256 bytes to
//! do its computations. `LookupReverse`'s memory cost is shared by all of the types
//! `LookupReverse` supports.
//!
//! ## `no_std` Compatible
//! To link to core instead of STD, disable default features for this library in your Cargo.toml.
//! [Cargo choosing features](http://doc.crates.io/specifying-dependencies.html#choosing-features)

// This library abuse overflowing literals to be able to use macros to reduce duplicate code.
#![allow(overflowing_literals)]
#![cfg_attr(not(feature = "use_std"), no_std)]

#[cfg(feature = "use_std")]
extern crate std as core;

#[macro_use]
mod macros;

mod bitwise;
mod lookup;
mod parallel;

pub use bitwise::BitwiseReverse;
pub use lookup::LookupReverse;
pub use parallel::ParallelReverse;