Abit

Use :atomics as a bit array or as an array of counters with n bits per counter in Elixir.

Documentation can be found at https://hexdocs.pm/abit.

Installation

Add abit to your list of dependencies in mix.exs:

def deps do
  [
    {:abit, "~> 0.1"}
  ]
end

API

Abit

• Abit.bit_count/1 - Returns count of bits in atomics.
• Abit.merge/2 - Merges bits of 2 atomics using Bitwise OR.
• Abit.intersect/2 - Intersects bits of 2 atomics using Bitwise AND.
• Abit.set_bit/3 - Sets a bit in atomics at a given position to a given bit (0 or 1).
• Abit.bit_position/1 - Returns the a bit's position in an atomics array.
• Abit.bit_at/2 - Returns the bit at a given position from atomics.
• Abit.set_bits_count/1 - Returns the number of bits set to 1 in atomics.
• Abit.hamming_distance/2 - Returns the bitwise hamming distance of 2 atomics references.

Abit.Counter

• Abit.Counter.new/2 - Create a new array of counters. Returns %Abit.Counter{} struct.
• Abit.Counter.get/2 - Returns the value of counter at the given index.
• Abit.Counter.put/3 - Puts the value into counter at the given index.
• Abit.Counter.add/3 - Adds the increment to counter at the given index.