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LGTM — clean optimization: iterating only set bits via TrailingZeros64 + clear-lowest-bit idiom instead of scanning all 64 bits. Well-known pattern, correctly applied across all EliasFano Build methods.
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Idea: instead of iterating over bits, iterate over words and get first-non-zero bit in word
Details: all Build() functions use naive O(64) bit scanning per word. Replace with
bits.TrailingZeros64 + word &= word-1to iterate only over set bits directly. This compiles to a singleTZCNTinstruction and eliminates all the skipped-zero-bit iterations.Result:
2.75xspeedup. Also speedup scales with sparsity of upperBits — at ~34% density, the inner loop runs ~3x fewer iterations