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Interesting read, thanks for sharing! If you have some benchmark results, it'd be great to see how it compares to traditional data structures in practice, for different datasets an…

I'm an ex-Melbournite doing a PhD in bioinformatics algorithms (and succinct data structures) in Tokyo. I'm mainly interested in co-working spaces for cross-pollination of ideas, a…

Although not part of the language proper, C++'s STL has vector that packs boolean flags into a bitvector (a now regrettable optimisation, since it doesn't function the way a contai…

I use them whenever I need to. Often I don't need to, since a compiler should be able to optimise the very basic things. Optimising prematurely is a good way to stuff something up …

It's cool :) and I just want to say that the readme is awesome. I love developers who communicate :P

I'm interested in the paper too of course :D

Thanks ot! :) I loved writing them and I hope it shows. Where is your blog at? Yes I was tempted to write a wiki page before...

Thanks! I'll keep visiting ^^ looks interesting as it is

Yes you should do a blog post :) What is your blog address?

Glad you mentioned this. The author linked to my blog post, where I mention fast rank/select structures. There are faster ways to do it without a supporting structure too of course…

For background: I'm 23, starting my PhD. Have had about a year of industry work (including a game company - actual interesting work). I have a few startup ideas (trying hard to exe…

Thanks for reading the post, and Michael for posting it. I enjoyed all the comments. I only recognized Zed Shaw, Batman and a few others, so I've got some reading to do :)