Practical uses of bitwise operations - Implementing a Flag System

[@joaoestudante1897]

Thanks for the great explanation!! If i'm not mistaken you can also do a "flag toggler" with a xor operator between the flag variable and the flag to toogle: 10000011 10000001 00000010 ^ 00000010^ 10000001 10000011

[@CodeVault]

Yes, that is correct. I may have forgotten to mention that. Good catch!

[@jameseze9469]

This is the most interesting tutorial I've ever watched since I was in my mother's womb. I love you...

[@drtalon1668]

Having studied at least 10-15 different explanations around the subject of bitwise operations, none really provided the "lightbulb" moment. Sure, all of those other videos explained what the operations did, and I was able to understand them, but this was by far the best example of what bitwise operations are actually useful for. After watching, I was able to come to this understanding on my own: Manipulation or assessment techniques of individual bits within an allocated memory space; used to efficiently represent states, properties or attributes of a system with the smallest allocation of memory required to do so.

[@DONJAJO]

Thank you for this. After years of programming, I've found myself implementing a websocket server specifications that require bit masking. Your video has helped greatly in understanding bitwise operations. Thank you.

[@flaviocampos3581]

I am learning how to send bit from client, server using signals. So I came to look for the bits thing that I had no idea how it works and this is so cool. Now I want to learn more. Thanks!

[@corpseopera]

minitalk

[@judeleon8485]

Wow! There is no better explanation anywhere else. So well explained, thanks

[@abiiranathan]

This is mind-blowing. Guy explains things like a professor. No buts!

[@invorokner282]

this channel it pure gold. I'm programming something for my company and this is so useful. generally this is gold.

[@firwanaa5526]

Your tutorial is truly elegant and informative. The concise video taught me a lot and I appreciate how this channel is full of hidden gems that help demystify complex concepts. As I am currently studying 'Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective', your work has been incredibly helpful. Thank you for providing such amazing content. I would be thrilled to see more on system and network programming. If you have any particular book or topics in mind, please let me know as I will certainly follow. Thanks again for your great work!

[@ninjaduck3534]

Thank you immensely! It was very helpful to see the practical use of bitwise operations and not just how to do them.

[@muumitramm]

Good explanation. You can improve maintainability with left bitshift: #define FIRST_FLAG 1

[@CodeVault]

Didn't think of that. That's a nice way to go about it

[@tombrady8861]

After 20 years of learning this I finally understand the usecase .

[@mynameisearlb]

Thank you for this! So the benefit of utilizing bitwise operations is to be able to drastically reduce the amount of required memory in your programs. I originally started learning C maybe 9 months ago and decided to switch to Python. Then a couple weeks ago I discovered that it's much better to make Android applications with java instead of python. Now I've just came to the bitwise portion of my Java book and they don't describe why these would be useful. I seen some bitwise operations being used in some source code in C related to the pinephone and googled for a while and couldn't figure out what was going on. With the help of this video, now I can at least grasp the concept. So now I get it, at least somewhat Great video!

[@muumitramm]

20:16 database example. Not only memory. You could store the bitflags into database integer field (instead of 32 separate boolean fields) which saves some space on disk too.

[@vfryhn2]

I'm starting with low level programming, and this is an awesome explanation, thank you for sharing your knowledge!

[@geraldikenna6444]

A true Engineer you are the best. Thank you for the explanation. It was very helpful

[@exoticcoder5365]

mind blown, at the same time very clear explanation 👍

[@mavrix2356]

We won't get on udemy what we get on your channel. Thank you so much bro

[@miyamotomusashi4556]

Honestly, I have bought courses on udemy only to discover that there were better material available free on KZbin. The only good thing that came from those courses is a well structured learning plan. I am not saying udemy courses are bad, I bought some and I have no regrets over it. I am just saying that sometimes, free resources are better!

[@shubhamzingare4433]

lots of love to u. absolutely loved how you explained it by taking practical example.

[@RichardLRogers]

Wonderful step by steps @15:23 !

[@ManiasInc]

what a good explanation!! Congratulations! Thanks for sharing your knowledge!👏🏽👏🏽😁😁🏆🏆

[@kitchenchem141]

Thank you, I never knew exactly why I would need to use these

[@chrisperkins1358]

Thanks for the great video, clear and very well explained. After reading 2.9 of The C Programming Language, I was completely baffled. Now it makes much more sense.

[@Liam-ey2gs]

I was in the same boat

[@Liam-ey2gs]

Thank you so much for your effort, your channel is an invaluable resource

[@sygaming1199]

This video is pure gold.

[@jasonoliver2752]

Really loved this explanation! Extremely clear and easy to follow.

[@akosyt4540]

THANK YOU MAN YOU REALLY HELPED ME TO UNDER THIS TOPIC AND IMPLEMENT IT IN MY PROGRAM

[@Bestcuriosity_1]

your explanation is so clear my professor can't explain me

[@brent56and1]

Just found out C# has this feature too. Very nice for storing multiple enum values in a single variable.

[@hilarytitus6157]

This is beautiful. Thank You

[@IllumTheMessage]

Superb description.

[@lisandroiaffar4501]

Thank you so much for such quality material 😁

[@wasgehtabman89]

Sensational video! Wow!

[@yelimsnusm7551]

18:30 ive been able to use bitwise operators next to the equal sign like with += or -=. it works.. maybe worth pointing out too. So you could write flags &= ~SECOND_FLAG; flags |= SECOND_FLAG;

[@CodeVault]

Good point!

[@muratkaradas1483]

Thanks for this great video 👍

[@stephenjames5745]

Excellent video. Thank you

[@nshreesha2011]

Amazing explanation! Thanks!!

[@shrimpfights17]

the youtube example really helped great work

[@igmu2681]

Thanks for the good video!

[@AlokSingh-se8ye]

Thanks for this amazing explanation!!

[@HasinthaWeragala]

Thank you sir, very well explained

[@maxallytheresias3547]

amazing explanation🔥🔥🔥

[@oktayozturk5673]

excellent explantion

[@nullzero9224]

Thanks - excellent explaination

[@DarwinBuelo]

Thank you. This is very helpful

[@msmalik681]

Very helpful thank you.

[@ComunidadGLLA]

So well explained! Thank you

[@deli5777]

very helpful and interesting, thanks!

[@juaninfante7000]

Sooooooooo Dope!!! That is soooooooo coool

[@vhmvdn]

Great content! I have a few questions tho. Do the macros take up memory as well? The minimum being a byte? Would is still be memory efficient with all those macros? Also, is this way of doing conditional branching more performant or relatively slower compared to a if (flag) { } I’m assuming it would be a little slow because the bits have to be manipulated first?

[@CodeVault]

The important aspect to understand about macros is that they disappear after the preprocessor step so, everything that starts with # actually disappears before the compilation begins thus, macros never add to execution time only pre-processing time. That if statement would be a tiny bit less performant, for sure. But it's quite insignificant I think. Bitwise operations are some of the fastest executing in a CPU

[@looploop6612]

thanks There is a question using bit operation: Given a number n, find length of the longest consecutive 1s in its binary representation. e.g. Input : n = 222 Output : 4 The binary representation of 222 is 11011110. The most efficient method is bitwise operation to find longest ones. But it is hard for me to understand it.

[@CodeVault]

In the video I used *x & 1* to check if the last binary digit of x is 1. If you use that with the right shift operation in a loop will get you the proper result.

[@dayokesola]

Purrfect!

[@nitinkulkarni7942]

Super Super example. Thank u

[@y4ni608]

I love you man grat tutorial

[@Fullstackdev-]

thanks

[@itsFojle]

Brother ❤❤

[@prashis]

Thanks man!!

[@chinpokomon_]

thank you

[@jameseze9469]

I just have to make a double comment because this is niceeeeee

[@anty.]

Question: Is this something a compiler automatically does when a program has a lot of bools? Or do we have to manually implement this to save the memory?

[@CodeVault]

I don't think any of the compilers do such an optimization. But I'm no expert in compilers so more research is needed regarding this

[@slzckboy]

you can tell a good explanation when before thr person gets to the punch line u can see where they are going already!

[@its_code]

❤❤❤❤

[@ChristopherPhillipsDev]

I sincerely appreciate your content! I've visited multiple times and everything is so very clear and laid out well. Regarding your #definitions, is there any performance gain doing it your way vs having #define FIRST 1 #define SECOND 2 #define THIRD 4 ?

[@CodeVault]

It won't affect performance when running the program. It *might* affect compile time... but just by a very small amount. So I think it's fine if you want to do it that way!

[@goldhalowings]

Thanks, i guess next video should be about bitwise shift operators

[@CodeVault]

We've already uploaded a video about them: kzbin.info/www/bejne/oqfNiGCXisiVfJI

[@goldhalowings]

​@@CodeVault I followed from a certain point the tutorials that's why i didn't notice, silly of me, thanks

[@marouanees-said6251]

Thanks for the explanation. I have a question: How do you run your c code in cmd instead of terminal's vs code ? Thanks again.

[@CodeVault]

On Linux you can simply do: gcc main.c -o main ./main For Windows you can try installing WSL or use the VisualC or other Windows compilers (like MinGW)

[@msmalik681]

If i use this for a 32 bit application if i then update that application to 64 bit will everything break ?

[@CodeVault]

No. It should work the same. An unsigned int should be only 4 bytes on both 32-bit and 64-bit architectures. And the rest are just bitwise operations which are never affected by the architecture (as far as I know)

[@joymakerRC]

love u

[@_slier]

| = bit setter & = bit clearer ~ = bit toggler

[@Rahulsharma-rg8ce]

Flagging this video as important 😅

[@Necropheliac]

I understand that programming this way would be necessary for writing programs with extremely small amounts of memory. That being said, kudos to those who want to write code this way, because I never want to write this kind of code, I find it extremely annoying to read and understand.

[@CodeVault]

I think it's a matter of getting used to it. Once you see it enough times and understand it, it doesn't look much different than code in other, higher level languages that is less efficient

[@SuperCoolHandle94]

Fantastic video, thank you

[@benjaminoyaro1309]

thank you