Hi, I'm writing an app in python, and I'm storing some a lot of data in bitmaps. I need a way to find the first or latest set bit in a 64bit number, and for that I've implemented a small routine. Thing is that this routine is not as fast as I'd wish. I know most processors implement BSF and BSR calls to do this efficiently. Is there anyway to access those calls from python? I'd still have my routine as a fallback on nonsupporting architectures.
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