漢明權重

漢明權重是一串符號中非零符號的個數。因此它等同於同樣長度的全零符號串的漢明距離。在最為常見的數據位符號串中，它是1的個數。

字符	字符串	漢明權重
0,1	11101	4
0,1	11101000	4
0,1	00000000	0
' ',a-z	hello world	11

歷史及應用

漢明權重是以理察·衛斯里·漢明的名字命名的，它在包括資訊理論、編碼理論、密碼學等多個領域都有應用。

高效實現

在密碼學以及其它應用中經常需要計算數據位中1的個數，針對如何高效地實現人們已經廣泛地進行了研究。一些處理器使用單個的命令進行計算，另外一些根據數據位向量使用並行運算進行處理。對於沒有這些特性的處理器來說，已知的最好解決辦法是按照樹狀進行相加。例如，要計算二進制數A=0110110010111010中1的個數，這些運算可以表示為：

符號	二進制	十進制	注釋
A	01 10 11 00 10 11 10 10		原始數據
B = A & 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01	01 00 01 00 00 01 00 00	1,0,1,0,0,1,0,0	A隔一位檢驗
C = (A >> 1) & 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01	00 01 01 00 01 01 01 01	0,1,1,0,1,1,1,1	A中剩餘的數據位
D = B + C	01 01 10 00 01 10 01 01	1,1,2,0,1,2,1,1	A中每個雙位段中1的個數列表
E = D & 0011 0011 0011 0011	00 01 00 00 00 10 00 01	1,0,2,1	D中數據隔一位檢驗
F = (D >> 2) & 0011 0011 0011 0011	00 01 00 10 00 01 00 01	1,2,1,1	D中剩餘數據的計算
G = E + F	00 10 00 10 00 11 00 10	2,2,3,2	A中4位數據段中1的個數列表
H = G & 00001111 00001111	00 00 00 10 00 00 00 10	2,2	G中數據隔一位檢驗
I = (G >> 4) & 00001111 00001111	00 00 00 10 00 00 00 11	2,3	G中剩餘數據的計算
J = H + I	00 00 01 00 00 00 01 01	4,5	A中8位數據段中1的個數列表
K = J & 0000000011111111	00 00 00 00 00 00 01 01	5	J中隔一位檢驗
L = (J >> 8) & 0000000011111111	00 00 00 00 00 00 01 00	4	J中剩餘數據的檢驗
M = K + L	00 00 00 00 00 00 10 01	9	最終答案

這裡的運算是用C語言表示的，所以X >> Y表示X右移Y位，X & Y表示X與Y的位與，+表示普通的加法。基於上面所討論的思想的這個問題的最好算法列在這裡：

//types and constants used in the functions below

typedef unsigned __int64 uint64;  //assume this gives 64-bits
const uint64 m1 = 0x5555555555555555; //binary: 0101...
const uint64 m2 = 0x3333333333333333; //binary: 00110011..
const uint64 m4 = 0x0f0f0f0f0f0f0f0f; //binary:  4 zeros,  4 ones ...
const uint64 m8 = 0x00ff00ff00ff00ff; //binary:  8 zeros,  8 ones ...
const uint64 m16 = 0x0000ffff0000ffff; //binary: 16 zeros, 16 ones ...
const uint64 m32 = 0x00000000ffffffff; //binary: 32 zeros, 32 ones ...
const uint64 hff = 0xffffffffffffffff; //binary: all ones
const uint64 h01 = 0x0101010101010101; //the sum of 256 to the power of 0,1,2,3...

//This is a naive implementation, shown for comparison,
//and to help in understanding the better functions.
//It uses 24 arithmetic operations (shift, add, and).
int popcount_1(uint64 x) {
    x = (x & m1 ) + ((x >>  1) & m1 ); //put count of each  2 bits into those  2 bits 
    x = (x & m2 ) + ((x >>  2) & m2 ); //put count of each  4 bits into those  4 bits 
    x = (x & m4 ) + ((x >>  4) & m4 ); //put count of each  8 bits into those  8 bits 
    x = (x & m8 ) + ((x >>  8) & m8 ); //put count of each 16 bits into those 16 bits 
    x = (x & m16) + ((x >> 16) & m16); //put count of each 32 bits into those 32 bits 
    x = (x & m32) + ((x >> 32) & m32); //put count of each 64 bits into those 64 bits 
    return x;
}

//This uses fewer arithmetic operations than any other known  
//implementation on machines with slow multiplication.
//It uses 17 arithmetic operations.
int popcount_2(uint64 x) {
    x -= (x >> 1) & m1;             //put count of each 2 bits into those 2 bits
    x = (x & m2) + ((x >> 2) & m2); //put count of each 4 bits into those 4 bits 
    x = (x + (x >> 4)) & m4;        //put count of each 8 bits into those 8 bits 
    x += x >>  8;  //put count of each 16 bits into their lowest 8 bits
    x += x >> 16;  //put count of each 32 bits into their lowest 8 bits
    x += x >> 32;  //put count of each 64 bits into their lowest 8 bits
    return x &0xff;
}

//This uses fewer arithmetic operations than any other known  
//implementation on machines with fast multiplication.
//It uses 12 arithmetic operations, one of which is a multiply.
int popcount_3(uint64 x) {
    x -= (x >> 1) & m1;             //put count of each 2 bits into those 2 bits
    x = (x & m2) + ((x >> 2) & m2); //put count of each 4 bits into those 4 bits 
    x = (x + (x >> 4)) & m4;        //put count of each 8 bits into those 8 bits 
    return (x * h01)>>56;  //returns left 8 bits of x + (x<<8) + (x<<16) + (x<<24) + ... 
}

在最壞的情況下，上面的實現是所有已知算法中表現最好的。但是，如果已知大多數數據位是0的話，那麼還有更快的算法。這些更快的算法是基於這樣一種事實即X與X-1相與得到的最低位永遠是0。例如：

Expression	Value
X	0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
X-1	0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1
X & (X-1)	0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

減1操作將最右邊的符號從0變到1，從1變到0，與操作將會移除最右端的1。如果最初X有N個1，那麼經過N次這樣的迭代運算，X將減到0。下面的算法就是根據這個原理實現的。

//This is better when most bits in x are 0
//It uses 3 arithmetic operations and one comparison/branch per "1" bit in x.
int popcount_4(uint64 x) {
    uint64 count;
    for (count=0; x; count++)
        x &= x-1;
    return count;
}

//This is better if most bits in x are 0.
//It uses 2 arithmetic operations and one comparison/branch  per "1" bit in x.
//It is the same as the previous function, but with the loop unrolled.
#define f(y) if ((x &= x-1) == 0) return y;
int popcount_5(uint64 x) {
    if (x == 0) return 0;
    f( 1) f( 2) f( 3) f( 4) f( 5) f( 6) f( 7) f( 8)
    f( 9) f(10) f(11) f(12) f(13) f(14) f(15) f(16)
    f(17) f(18) f(19) f(20) f(21) f(22) f(23) f(24)
    f(25) f(26) f(27) f(28) f(29) f(30) f(31) f(32)
    f(33) f(34) f(35) f(36) f(37) f(38) f(39) f(40)
    f(41) f(42) f(43) f(44) f(45) f(46) f(47) f(48)
    f(49) f(50) f(51) f(52) f(53) f(54) f(55) f(56)
    f(57) f(58) f(59) f(60) f(61) f(62) f(63)
    return 64;
}

//Use this instead if most bits in x are 1 instead of 0
#define f(y) if ((x |= x+1) == hff) return 64-y;

參見

• 漢明距離

外部連結

• Aggregate Magic Algorithms （頁面存檔備份，存於網際網路檔案館）.優化漢明重量算法及其它算法解釋（附原始碼）。
• HACKMEM item 169 （頁面存檔備份，存於網際網路檔案館）. Population count assembly code for the PDP/6-10.
• Bit Twiddling Hacks （頁面存檔備份，存於網際網路檔案館）帶有原始碼的幾種漢明重量計算方法