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According to rockwell@socrates.umd.edu (Raul Rockwell):
>Chip Salzenberg:
>   That kind of problem is not "generally important" in that it does not
>   come up in the "general computing base".
>
>harumph.
>
>At work we have a hand-optimized assembly routine to convert from a
>bit array to a list of indices.  It gets used a lot.

Mr. Rockwell's point is presumably that it would be more widely used
were it more widely implemented.  I cannot help but agree.

Unfortunately, it is impossible to do cost/benefit analyses on
possible universes of computation in which given tools are more or
less available or efficient.  A pity.

I've been taken to task by another reader for my use of the term
"general computing base", since I can't define it.  That point is also
well taken.

Things are not as simple as I had believed...
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