Efficient bitwise operations for counting bits or find the right|left most ones

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If you want the fastest way, you will need to use non-portable methods.

Windows/MSVC:

GCC:

These typically map directly to native hardware instructions. So it doesn’t get much faster than these.

But since there’s no C/C++ functionality for them, they’re only accessible via compiler intrinsics.

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