want fast bit set/extract

[Brian Hurt]

On 17 Apr 2004, D. J. Bernstein wrote:

> I often want to compute floor(n/2^s) mod 2^b, given n,b,s. This should
> be extremely fast when b is small (particularly when s is a multiple of
> 32), even if s is somewhere in the middle of the bits of n.

I posted code to do this a while ago, but haven't gotten around to 
finishing debugging the  mmx version of this code.  Actually, the code I 
wrote was even more generic than this.

> 
> Similarly, I often want to replace n with n + 2^s m. This should be
> extremely fast (assuming few carries) when m is small and n already has
> enough space allocated.

This wouldn't be hard to modify my code to do.  Question: how would you 
want to handle the carry out?

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