Blog posts tagged with 'bit manipulation':



Bitwise mask emulation with Solr

Date: 28 Feb 2014
Tags: [ bit manipulation ]  [ solr

Solr is great for searching through a massive data collection in lots of different ways. But one thing Solr lacks is the possibility to search bitwise. And this by itself makes sense: Solr uses inverted indexing and doing bitwise operations on it’s indexes might result in a loss of performance. There are, however, some plugins that will allow you to use bitwise operations, but there might even be a more native way:

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Bit manipulation in PHP

Date: 02 Jun 2010
Tags: [ bit manipulation

Although you probably never need it as much as a C-programmer would, it’s not a bad idea to know how bit manipulation works. This post will tell you a bit about what bit manipulation is, why you could use it and how you are using it already (with or without knowing)

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