Bitwise Popcount Utility (utils/popcount.h)

A high-performance header providing cross-platform population count functions for 32-bit and 64-bit integers. Use this for low-level bit manipulation and efficient similarity search algorithms.

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#pragma once

#include <cstdint>

// popcount = count number of 1s in the binary representation of a number

#ifdef _MSC_VER
#include <intrin.h>
inline int popcount32(uint32_t x) {
    return __popcnt(x);
}
inline int popcount64(uint64_t x) {
    return static_cast<int>(__popcnt64(x));
}
#else
inline int popcount32(uint32_t x) {
    return __builtin_popcount(x);
}
inline int popcount64(uint64_t x) {
    return __builtin_popcou

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