@thi.ng/bitfield

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About

1D / 2D bit field implementations.

All implementations are backed by typed arrays. Due to Uint32Array backing the width is always rounded to a multiple of 32.

Status

STABLE - used in production

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Related packages

• @thi.ng/adjacency - Sparse & bitwise adjacency matrices, lists and selected traversal algorithms for directed & undirected graphs

Installation

yarn add @thi.ng/bitfield

ESM import:

import * as bf from "@thi.ng/bitfield";

Browser ESM import:

<script type="module" src="https://esm.run/@thi.ng/bitfield"></script>

JSDelivr documentation

For Node.js REPL:

const bf = await import("@thi.ng/bitfield");

Package sizes (brotli'd, pre-treeshake): ESM: 1.46 KB

Dependencies

• @thi.ng/api
• @thi.ng/binary
• @thi.ng/errors
• @thi.ng/strings

Note: @thi.ng/api is in most cases a type-only import (not used at runtime)

Usage examples

One project in this repo's /examples directory is using this package:

Screenshot	Description	Live demo	Source
	Responsive image gallery with tag-based Jaccard similarity ranking	Demo	Source

API

Generated API docs

import { BitField, BitMatrix } from "@thi.ng/bitfield";

// size always rounded up to a multiple of 32
const field = new BitField(16);

field.setAt(0);

// if 2nd arg is false, the bit will be cleared
// setAt returns non-zero value if bit was previously set
field.setAt(31, true);
// 0

// returns non-zero value if bit is set
field.at(0)
// -2147483648

field.at(1)
// 0

field.toString();
// 10000000000000000000000000000001

field.resize(64)
// 1000000000000000000000000000000100000000000000000000000000000000

const mat = new BitMatrix(8, 32);
for(let i = 0; i < 8; i++) mat.setAt(i, i);

mat.at(7, 7);
// 16777216

mat.toString();
// 10000000000000000000000000000000
// 01000000000000000000000000000000
// 00100000000000000000000000000000
// 00010000000000000000000000000000
// 00001000000000000000000000000000
// 00000100000000000000000000000000
// 00000010000000000000000000000000
// 00000001000000000000000000000000

Authors

• Karsten Schmidt

If this project contributes to an academic publication, please cite it as:

@misc{thing-bitfield,
  title = "@thi.ng/bitfield",
  author = "Karsten Schmidt",
  note = "https://thi.ng/bitfield",
  year = 2016
}

License

© 2016 - 2025 Karsten Schmidt // Apache License 2.0