Proposal: Add Data.Bits.popCount

[Johan Tibell]

On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 3:13 PM, Ryan Newton <rrnewton at gmail.com> wrote:
> +1
>>
>> > I'd prefer to not wait with adding popCount until this is done, unless
>> > someone takes it on them to add the others before GHC 7.4.
>>
>> No, don't wait. While it would be nice to have the others equally soon,
>> it's better to have one goody than none.
>
> How about making the API change in one go -- i.e. add the default
> implementations for all of them, which is easy.  Then people can come along
> and do the GHC work necessary to make the others efficient later.
> In fact, changing the API could be a "forcing function" to make the others
> happen ;-).

If someone wants to do the work I'm happy to review the patches.