I conveniently encapsulated the whole binary stream issue in a BitStream class. A BitStream object may be created, given a filename, and the user can call a get_bits(N) method to get the next N bits from the file (as a string “010101″ etc.) simple and cute. You can read more about it here.

About the implementation – I use the simplest for the moment. When we run into memory problems in our tests, I’ll switch to the buffered approach.

Todo… check out this vec() thingie.

Related posts:

1. perl bit-crunching
2. solution to yesterday’s problem

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