RoaringBitmap / RoaringBitmap/roaring

Or and Xor in-place functions should be optimized

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Description

Currently, the binary And, Or, Xor and AndNot in-place functions do not attempt to do the computation in-place.

A genuine in-place implementation, as is available in the Java counterpart https://github.com/lemire/RoaringBitmap would use less memory and be faster in some instances (because it would avoid memory allocation and unnecessary copies).

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Research direction

Locate the binary And, Or, Xor, and AndNot in-place functions and read their current implementations first. Confirm the desired behavior against the Java RoaringBitmap counterpart linked in the issue; done means these operations genuinely reuse the destination where possible while preserving their results and avoiding unnecessary allocation or copying.

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Assessment

Tech stack
go
Domain
performance
Issue type
Refactor
Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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