Playing with the C code from Redis in bitops.c

popcount.c

#include <stdio.h>
#include <inttypes.h>

size_t redisPopcount(void *s, long count) {
    size_t bits = 0;
    unsigned char *p = s;
    uint32_t *p4;
    static const unsigned char bitsinbyte[256] = {0,1,1,2,1,2,2,3,1,2,2,3,2,3,3,4,1,2,2,3,2,3,3,4,2,3,3,4,3,4,4,5,1,2,2,3,2,3,3,4,2,3,3,4,3,4,4,5,2,3,3,4,3,4,4,5,3,4,4,5,4,5,5,6,1,2,2,3,2,3,3,4,2,3,3,4,3,4,4,5,2,3,3,4,3,4,4,5,3,4,4,5,4,5,5,6,2,3,3,4,3,4,4,5,3,4,4,5,4,5,5,6,3,4,4,5,4,5,5,6,4,5,5,6,5,6,6,7,1,2,2,3,2,3,3,4,2,3,3,4,3,4,4,5,2,3,3,4,3,4,4,5,3,4,4,5,4,5,5,6,2,3,3,4,3,4,4,5,3,4,4,5,4,5,5,6,3,4,4,5,4,5,5,6,4,5,5,6,5,6,6,7,2,3,3,4,3,4,4,5,3,4,4,5,4,5,5,6,3,4,4,5,4,5,5,6,4,5,5,6,5,6,6,7,3,4,4,5,4,5,5,6,4,5,5,6,5,6,6,7,4,5,5,6,5,6,6,7,5,6,6,7,6,7,7,8};

    /* Count initial bytes not aligned to 32 bit. */
    while((unsigned long)p & 3 && count) {
      printf("p: %lu \n", (unsigned long) p);
      printf("p: %c \n", *(p));
      printf("p: %i \n", *(p));
        bits += bitsinbyte[*p++];
        count--;
    }

    /* Count bits 28 bytes at a time */
    p4 = (uint32_t*)p;
    while(count>=28) {
        uint32_t aux1, aux2, aux3, aux4, aux5, aux6, aux7;

        aux1 = *p4++;
        aux2 = *p4++;
        aux3 = *p4++;
        aux4 = *p4++;
        aux5 = *p4++;
        aux6 = *p4++;
        aux7 = *p4++;
        count -= 28;

        aux1 = aux1 - ((aux1 >> 1) & 0x55555555);
        aux1 = (aux1 & 0x33333333) + ((aux1 >> 2) & 0x33333333);
        aux2 = aux2 - ((aux2 >> 1) & 0x55555555);
        aux2 = (aux2 & 0x33333333) + ((aux2 >> 2) & 0x33333333);
        aux3 = aux3 - ((aux3 >> 1) & 0x55555555);
        aux3 = (aux3 & 0x33333333) + ((aux3 >> 2) & 0x33333333);
        aux4 = aux4 - ((aux4 >> 1) & 0x55555555);
        aux4 = (aux4 & 0x33333333) + ((aux4 >> 2) & 0x33333333);
        aux5 = aux5 - ((aux5 >> 1) & 0x55555555);
        aux5 = (aux5 & 0x33333333) + ((aux5 >> 2) & 0x33333333);
        aux6 = aux6 - ((aux6 >> 1) & 0x55555555);
        aux6 = (aux6 & 0x33333333) + ((aux6 >> 2) & 0x33333333);
        aux7 = aux7 - ((aux7 >> 1) & 0x55555555);
        aux7 = (aux7 & 0x33333333) + ((aux7 >> 2) & 0x33333333);
        bits += ((((aux1 + (aux1 >> 4)) & 0x0F0F0F0F) +
                    ((aux2 + (aux2 >> 4)) & 0x0F0F0F0F) +
                    ((aux3 + (aux3 >> 4)) & 0x0F0F0F0F) +
                    ((aux4 + (aux4 >> 4)) & 0x0F0F0F0F) +
                    ((aux5 + (aux5 >> 4)) & 0x0F0F0F0F) +
                    ((aux6 + (aux6 >> 4)) & 0x0F0F0F0F) +
                    ((aux7 + (aux7 >> 4)) & 0x0F0F0F0F))* 0x01010101) >> 24;
    }
    /* Count the remaining bytes. */
    p = (unsigned char*)p4;
    while(count--) bits += bitsinbyte[*p++];
    return bits;
}

int main() {

  size_t s;
  unsigned char *p = NULL;

  p = (unsigned char*) "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz01234567890";

  s = redisPopcount(p, 4);
  printf("s: %zu\n", s);
  return 0;
}