天真的解决方案

时间复杂度为O(no。n的比特数)

int countSet(unsigned int n)
{
    int res=0;
    while(n!=0){
      res += (n&1);
      n >>= 1;      // logical right shift, like C unsigned or Java >>>
    }
   return res;
}

Brian Kerningam的算法

时间复杂度为O(n中设置位的个数)

int countSet(unsigned int n)
{
  int res=0;
  while(n != 0)
  {
    n = (n & (n-1));
    res++;
  }
  return res;
} 

32位数字的查找表方法-在这种方法中，我们将32位数字分解为4个8位数字的块

时间复杂度为O(1)

static unsigned char table[256]; /* the table size is 256,
                        the number of values i&0xFF (8 bits) can have */

void initialize() //holds the number of set bits from 0 to 255
{
  table[0]=0;
  for(unsigned int i=1;i<256;i++)
     table[i]=(i&1)+table[i>>1];
}

int countSet(unsigned int n)
{
  // 0xff is hexadecimal representation of 8 set bits.
  int res=table[n & 0xff];
  n=n>>8;
  res=res+ table[n & 0xff];
  n=n>>8;
  res=res+ table[n & 0xff];
  n=n>>8;
  res=res+ table[n & 0xff];
  return res;
}

当你写出比特模式时，“黑客的喜悦”比特旋转变得更加清晰。

unsigned int bitCount(unsigned int x)
{
  x = ((x >> 1) & 0b01010101010101010101010101010101)
     + (x       & 0b01010101010101010101010101010101);
  x = ((x >> 2) & 0b00110011001100110011001100110011)
     + (x       & 0b00110011001100110011001100110011); 
  x = ((x >> 4) & 0b00001111000011110000111100001111)
     + (x       & 0b00001111000011110000111100001111); 
  x = ((x >> 8) & 0b00000000111111110000000011111111)
     + (x       & 0b00000000111111110000000011111111); 
  x = ((x >> 16)& 0b00000000000000001111111111111111)
     + (x       & 0b00000000000000001111111111111111); 
  return x;
}

第一步将偶数位加到奇数位上，产生每两个位的和。其他步骤将高阶数据块添加到低阶数据块，将数据块的大小一直增加一倍，直到最终计数占用整个int。

另一个汉明权重算法，如果你使用的是BMI2 CPU:

the_weight = __tzcnt_u64(~_pext_u64(data[i], data[i]));

unsigned int count_bit(unsigned int x)
{
  x = (x & 0x55555555) + ((x >> 1) & 0x55555555);
  x = (x & 0x33333333) + ((x >> 2) & 0x33333333);
  x = (x & 0x0F0F0F0F) + ((x >> 4) & 0x0F0F0F0F);
  x = (x & 0x00FF00FF) + ((x >> 8) & 0x00FF00FF);
  x = (x & 0x0000FFFF) + ((x >> 16)& 0x0000FFFF);
  return x;
}

我来解释一下这个算法。

该算法基于分治算法。假设有一个8位整数213(二进制的11010101)，算法是这样工作的(每次合并两个邻居块):

+-------------------------------+
| 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |  <- x
|  1 0  |  0 1  |  0 1  |  0 1  |  <- first time merge
|    0 0 1 1    |    0 0 1 0    |  <- second time merge
|        0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1        |  <- third time ( answer = 00000101 = 5)
+-------------------------------+

// How about the following:
public int CountBits(int value)
{
    int count = 0;
    while (value > 0)
    {
        if (value & 1)
            count++;
        value <<= 1;
    }
    return count;
}

对于Java，有一个Java .util. bitset。 https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/util/BitSet.html

cardinality():返回在BitSet中设置为true的比特数。

BitSet是内存高效的，因为它被存储为Long类型。