Crate hamming

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A crate to count ones and xor bytes, fast (aka popcount, hamming weight and hamming distance).

§Installation

Add this to your Cargo.toml:

[dependencies]
hamming = "0.1"

assert_eq!(hamming::weight(&[1, 0xFF, 1, 0xFF]), 1 + 8 + 1 + 8);
assert_eq!(hamming::distance(&[1, 0xFF], &[0xFF, 1]), 7 + 7);

distance: Computes the bitwise Hamming distance between x and y, that is, the number of bits where x and y differ, or, the number of set bits in the xor of x and y.
distance_fast: Computes the bitwise Hamming distance between x and y, that is, the number of bits where x and y differ, or, the number of set bits in the xor of x and y.
weight: Computes the Hamming weight of x, that is, the population count, or number of ones.