====== Chess - Programming - de Bruijn Sequence - Using a De Bruijn Sequence ====== Here is a pre-calculatedde Bruijn Sequence. int MultiplyDeBruijnBitPositions[64] { 0,1,2,4,8,17,34,5,11,23,47,31,63,62,61,59, 55,46,29,58,53,43,22,44,24,49,35,7,15,30,60,57, 51,38,12,25,50,36,9,18,37,10,21,42,20,41,19,39, 14,28,56,48,33,3,6,13,27,54,45,26,52,40,16,32 }; int getLog2_DeBruijn(ulong v) { return MultiplyDeBruijnBitPosition[(ulong)(v * 0x022fdd63cc95386dull) >> 58]; } **NOTE:** The conventional power of 2 and square is extremely slow. (100M calculations needs hours). * There are many alternative methods to make this faster, including: * **SIMD and SWAR Techniques**: * **De_Bruijn Splited 32bits**: * **De_Bruijn 64bits version**: * **De_Bruijn 128bits version**: * The **De_Bruijn 128bits** version is the fastest. ---- ===== Power of 2 using SIMD and SWAR Techniques ===== ulong NumBits64(ulong x) { return (Ones64(Msb64(x) - 1ul) + 1ul); } ulong Msb64(ulong x) { //http://aggregate.org/MAGIC/ x |= (x >> 1); x |= (x >> 2); x |= (x >> 4); x |= (x >> 8); x |= (x >> 16); x |= (x >> 32); return(x & ~(x >> 1)); } ulong Ones64(ulong x) { //https://chessprogramming.wikispaces.com/SIMD+and+SWAR+Techniques const ulong k1 = 0x5555555555555555ul; const ulong k2 = 0x3333333333333333ul; const ulong k4 = 0x0f0f0f0f0f0f0f0ful; x = x - ((x >> 1) & k1); x = (x & k2) + ((x >> 2) & k2); x = (x + (x >> 4)) & k4; x = (x * 0x0101010101010101ul) >> 56; return x; } ---- ===== Power of 2 using De_Bruijn Splited 32bits ===== int NumBits64(ulong val) { if (val > 0x00000000FFFFFFFFul) { // Value is greater than largest 32 bit number, // so calculate the number of bits in the top half // and add 32. return 32 + GetLog2_DeBruijn((int)(val >> 32)); } // Number is no more than 32 bits, // so calculate number of bits in the bottom half. return GetLog2_DeBruijn((int)(val & 0xFFFFFFFF)); } int GetLog2_DeBruijn(int val) { uint32 v = (uint32)val; int r; // result goes here static const int MultiplyDeBruijnBitPosition[32] = { 0, 9, 1, 10, 13, 21, 2, 29, 11, 14, 16, 18, 22, 25, 3, 30, 8, 12, 20, 28, 15, 17, 24, 7, 19, 27, 23, 6, 26, 5, 4, 31 }; v |= v >> 1; // first round down to one less than a power of 2 v |= v >> 2; v |= v >> 4; v |= v >> 8; v |= v >> 16; r = MultiplyDeBruijnBitPosition[(uint32_t)(v * 0x07C4ACDDU) >> 27]; return r; } ---- ===== Power of 2 using De_Bruijn 64bits version ===== static readonly int[] bitPatternToLog2 = new int[64] { 0, // change to 1 if you want bitSize(0) = 1 1, 2, 53, 3, 7, 54, 27, 4, 38, 41, 8, 34, 55, 48, 28, 62, 5, 39, 46, 44, 42, 22, 9, 24, 35, 59, 56, 49, 18, 29, 11, 63, 52, 6, 26, 37, 40, 33, 47, 61, 45, 43, 21, 23, 58, 17, 10, 51, 25, 36, 32, 60, 20, 57, 16, 50, 31, 19, 15, 30, 14, 13, 12 }; // table taken from http://chessprogramming.wikispaces.com/De+Bruijn+Sequence+Generator static readonly ulong multiplicator = 0x022fdd63cc95386dUL; public static int bitSize(ulong v) { v |= v >> 1; v |= v >> 2; v |= v >> 4; v |= v >> 8; v |= v >> 16; v |= v >> 32; // at this point you could also use popcount to find the number of set bits. // That might well be faster than a lookup table because you prevent a // potential cache miss if (v == (ulong)-1) return 64; v++; return MultiplyDeBruijnBitPosition2[(ulong)(v * multiplicator) >> 58]; } ---- ===== Power of 2 using De_Bruijn 128bits version ===== static readonly int[] bitPatternToLog2 = new int[64] { 0, // change to 1 if you want bitSize(0) = 1 1, 2, 53, 3, 7, 54, 27, 4, 38, 41, 8, 34, 55, 48, 28, 62, 5, 39, 46, 44, 42, 22, 9, 24, 35, 59, 56, 49, 18, 29, 11, 63, 52, 6, 26, 37, 40, 33, 47, 61, 45, 43, 21, 23, 58, 17, 10, 51, 25, 36, 32, 60, 20, 57, 16, 50, 31, 19, 15, 30, 14, 13, 12 }; // table taken from http://chessprogramming.wikispaces.com/De+Bruijn+Sequence+Generator static readonly ulong multiplicator = 0x022fdd63cc95386dUL; public static int bitSize(ulong v) { v |= v >> 1; v |= v >> 2; v |= v >> 4; v |= v >> 8; v |= v >> 16; v |= v >> 32; // at this point you could also use popcount to find the number of set bits. // That might well be faster than a lookup table because you prevent a // potential cache miss if (v == (ulong)-1) return 64; v++; return MultiplyDeBruijnBitPosition2[(ulong)(v * multiplicator) >> 58]; } ---- ===== References ===== https://stackoverflow.com/a/21888833/1240074 https://stackoverflow.com/a/21889329/1240074 https://stackoverflow.com/a/21888542/1240074