我给出了两个算法来回答这个问题，

package countSetBitsInAnInteger;

import java.util.Scanner;

public class UsingLoop {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        Scanner in = new Scanner(System.in);
        try {
            System.out.println("Enter a integer number to check for set bits in it");
            int n = in.nextInt();
            System.out.println("Using while loop, we get the number of set bits as: " + usingLoop(n));
            System.out.println("Using Brain Kernighan's Algorithm, we get the number of set bits as: " + usingBrainKernighan(n));
            System.out.println("Using ");
        }
        finally {
            in.close();
        }
    }

    private static int usingBrainKernighan(int n) {
        int count = 0;
        while(n > 0) {
            n& = (n-1);
            count++;
        }
        return count;
    }

    /*
        Analysis:
            Time complexity = O(lgn)
            Space complexity = O(1)
    */

    private static int usingLoop(int n) {
        int count = 0;
        for(int i=0; i<32; i++) {
            if((n&(1 << i)) != 0)
                count++;
        }
        return count;
    }

    /*
        Analysis:
            Time Complexity = O(32) // Maybe the complexity is O(lgn)
            Space Complexity = O(1)
    */
}

我使用下面更直观的代码。

int countSetBits(int n) {
    return !n ? 0 : 1 + countSetBits(n & (n-1));
}

逻辑:n & (n-1)重置n的最后一个集合位。

附注:我知道这不是O(1)解，尽管这是一个有趣的解。

这不是最快或最好的解决方案，但我以自己的方式发现了同样的问题，我开始反复思考。最后我意识到它可以这样做，如果你从数学方面得到这个问题，画一个图，然后你发现它是一个有周期部分的函数，然后你意识到周期之间的差异……所以你看:

unsigned int f(unsigned int x)
{
    switch (x) {
        case 0:
            return 0;
        case 1:
            return 1;
        case 2:
            return 1;
        case 3:
            return 2;
        default:
            return f(x/4) + f(x%4);
    }
}

对于那些想要在c++ 11中为任何无符号整数类型作为consexpr函数的人(tacklelib/include/tacklelib/utility/math.hpp):

#include <stdint.h>
#include <limits>
#include <type_traits>

const constexpr uint32_t uint32_max = (std::numeric_limits<uint32_t>::max)();

namespace detail
{
    template <typename T>
    inline constexpr T _count_bits_0(const T & v)
    {
        return v - ((v >> 1) & 0x55555555);
    }

    template <typename T>
    inline constexpr T _count_bits_1(const T & v)
    {
        return (v & 0x33333333) + ((v >> 2) & 0x33333333);
    }

    template <typename T>
    inline constexpr T _count_bits_2(const T & v)
    {
        return (v + (v >> 4)) & 0x0F0F0F0F;
    }

    template <typename T>
    inline constexpr T _count_bits_3(const T & v)
    {
        return v + (v >> 8);
    }

    template <typename T>
    inline constexpr T _count_bits_4(const T & v)
    {
        return v + (v >> 16);
    }

    template <typename T>
    inline constexpr T _count_bits_5(const T & v)
    {
        return v & 0x0000003F;
    }

    template <typename T, bool greater_than_uint32>
    struct _impl
    {
        static inline constexpr T _count_bits_with_shift(const T & v)
        {
            return
                detail::_count_bits_5(
                    detail::_count_bits_4(
                        detail::_count_bits_3(
                            detail::_count_bits_2(
                                detail::_count_bits_1(
                                    detail::_count_bits_0(v)))))) + count_bits(v >> 32);
        }
    };

    template <typename T>
    struct _impl<T, false>
    {
        static inline constexpr T _count_bits_with_shift(const T & v)
        {
            return 0;
        }
    };
}

template <typename T>
inline constexpr T count_bits(const T & v)
{
    static_assert(std::is_integral<T>::value, "type T must be an integer");
    static_assert(!std::is_signed<T>::value, "type T must be not signed");

    return uint32_max >= v ?
        detail::_count_bits_5(
            detail::_count_bits_4(
                detail::_count_bits_3(
                    detail::_count_bits_2(
                        detail::_count_bits_1(
                            detail::_count_bits_0(v)))))) :
        detail::_impl<T, sizeof(uint32_t) < sizeof(v)>::_count_bits_with_shift(v);
}

谷歌测试库中的附加测试:

#include <stdlib.h>
#include <time.h>

namespace {
    template <typename T>
    inline uint32_t _test_count_bits(const T & v)
    {
        uint32_t count = 0;
        T n = v;
        while (n > 0) {
            if (n % 2) {
                count += 1;
            }
            n /= 2;
        }
        return count;
    }
}

TEST(FunctionsTest, random_count_bits_uint32_100K)
{
    srand(uint_t(time(NULL)));
    for (uint32_t i = 0; i < 100000; i++) {
        const uint32_t r = uint32_t(rand()) + (uint32_t(rand()) << 16);
        ASSERT_EQ(_test_count_bits(r), count_bits(r));
    }
}

TEST(FunctionsTest, random_count_bits_uint64_100K)
{
    srand(uint_t(time(NULL)));
    for (uint32_t i = 0; i < 100000; i++) {
        const uint64_t r = uint64_t(rand()) + (uint64_t(rand()) << 16) + (uint64_t(rand()) << 32) + (uint64_t(rand()) << 48);
        ASSERT_EQ(_test_count_bits(r), count_bits(r));
    }
}

对于JavaScript，你可以使用一个查找表来计算一个32位值的设置位的数量(这段代码可以很容易地翻译成C语言)。此外，添加了8位和16位版本，以供通过网络搜索查找的人使用。

const COUNT_BITS_TABLE = makeLookupTable() function makeLookupTable() { const table = new Uint8Array(256) for (let i = 0; i < 256; i++) { table[i] = (i & 1) + table[(i / 2) | 0]; } return table } function countOneBits32(n) { return COUNT_BITS_TABLE[n & 0xff] + COUNT_BITS_TABLE[(n >> 8) & 0xff] + COUNT_BITS_TABLE[(n >> 16) & 0xff] + COUNT_BITS_TABLE[(n >> 24) & 0xff]; } function countOneBits16(n) { return COUNT_BITS_TABLE[n & 0xff] + COUNT_BITS_TABLE[(n >> 8) & 0xff] } function countOneBits8(n) { return COUNT_BITS_TABLE[n & 0xff] } console.log('countOneBits32', countOneBits32(0b10101010000000001010101000000000)) console.log('countOneBits32', countOneBits32(0b10101011110000001010101000000000)) console.log('countOneBits16', countOneBits16(0b1010101000000000)) console.log('countOneBits8', countOneBits8(0b10000010))

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]));