Hello, again.  Just wanted to clarify, in case the below speedup didn't 
seem worth it.  That 6% speedup was in the top-level uuid/v1 function, not 
mask!

I'll try to give a clearer picture of my suggestion:  Consider

(let [bitmask (mask 8 (* 8 (dec 7)))
      off (mask-offset bitmask)
      moff (>>> bitmask off)]
  (defn ^long ldb6 [^long num]
    (bit-and moff (bit-shift-right num off))))

This function gives a speedup of 370% over calling (ldb (mask ...) num), 
because you don't really need to calculate the mask, offset, or offset-mask 
at runtime.

I envisioned writing a macro that would write the function

(let [bitmask0 (mask 8 (* 8 (dec 1)))
      off0 (mask-offset bitmask0)
      moff0 (>>> bitmask0 off0)
      ...]
  (defn ^long ldb-j [^long j ^long num]
    (case j
      0 (bit-and moff0 (bit-shift-right num off0))
      ...
      7 (bit-and moff7 (bit-shift-right num off7))
      (throw IAE))))

Or just write the unrolled version by hand.  I think you would get a fair 
speedup if you did that for ldb and dpb.

Hoping that's clearer,
Leif

On Monday, February 23, 2015 at 9:20:12 PM UTC-5, Leif wrote:
>
>
> If you're trying to squeeze every last bit of performance, and you don't 
> mind some messiness and macros, I noticed that many of these functions are 
> called with only a few values in the first argument.  So you are doing a 
> lot of bit-fiddling at runtime that could be done at compile-time.  So you 
> could partially evaluate (i.e. unroll, i.e. ~make lookup table for) 'ldb' 
> and 'dpb' for the 8 or 9 different first arguments you actually call it 
> with.  I unrolled your 'mask' fn into a 8-way case statement, and got about 
> 6% speedup.
>
> --Leif
>
> On Monday, February 23, 2015 at 1:59:32 PM UTC-5, danl...@gmail.com wrote:
>>
>> So, much of the pain involved in handling UUID's correctly on the JVM
>> relates to the fact that there is no primitive unsigned numeric type
>> that can represent the full range of possible values of the msb and lsb.
>> Ie., we need to always deal with the unpleasant "am I negative?" approach 
>> to
>> reading (writing) that 64th bit.  To avoid the complexity of all the 
>> edge cases, we encapsulate the basic primitives of working with
>> unsigned numbers entirely within the abstraction of "mask" and
>> "mask offset".  Using these, we built the two fundamental bitwise 
>> operations
>> that are used for most of the UUID calculation: ldb (load-byte) and
>> dpb (deposit-byte).
>>
>> This scrap of code from my clj-uuid.bitmop library is extremely useful 
>> for working 
>> with "unsigned" long/binary values (analogously to how one might using 
>> the common-lisp
>> functions by the same name).  And, it has been "good enough" to do pretty 
>> well
>> so far in terms of performance.  But I'm sure that there are gifted 
>> binariticians
>> in the audience that can improve this. (Note, the namespace uses 
>> ztellman/primitive-math
>> which changes the semantics of some arithmetic operations and some type 
>> hinting.  Also
>> some of the 'let's are there for that reason. It may be helpful to refer 
>> to the link.
>>
>> ;;; 
>> https://github.com/danlentz/clj-uuid/blob/master/src/clj_uuid/bitmop.clj
>>
>>
>> (defn ^long expt2 [^long pow]
>>   (bit-set 0 pow))
>>
>> (defn ^long mask [^long width ^long offset]
>>   (if (< (+ width offset) 64)
>>     (bit-shift-left (dec (bit-shift-left 1 width)) offset)
>>     (let [x (expt2 offset)]
>>       (bit-and-not -1 (dec ^long x)))))
>>
>> (declare ^long mask-offset ^long mask-width)
>>
>> (defn ^long mask-offset [^long m]
>>   (cond
>>     (zero? m) 0
>>     (neg?  m) (- 64 ^long (mask-width m))
>>     :else     (loop [c 0]
>>                 (if (pos? (bit-and 1 (bit-shift-right m c)))
>>                   c
>>                   (recur (inc c))))))
>>
>> (defn ^long mask-width [^long m]
>>   (if (neg? m)
>>     (let [x (mask-width (- (inc m)))]
>>       (- 64  ^long x))
>>     (loop [m (bit-shift-right m (mask-offset m)) c 0]
>>       (if (zero? (bit-and 1 (bit-shift-right m c)))
>>         c
>>         (recur m (inc c))))))
>>
>> (defn ^long ldb
>>   "Load Byte"
>>   [^long bitmask ^long num]
>>   (let [off (mask-offset bitmask)]
>>     (bit-and (>>> bitmask ^long off)
>>       (bit-shift-right num off))))
>>
>> (defn ^long dpb
>>   "Deposit Byte"
>>   [^long bitmask ^long num ^long value]
>>   (bit-or (bit-and-not num bitmask)
>>     (bit-and bitmask
>>       (bit-shift-left value (mask-offset bitmask)))))
>>
>

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