Bit hack: Expanding bits

Question

I am trying to convert a uint16_t input to a uint32_t bit mask. One bit in the input toggles two bits in the output bit mask. Here is an example conver

Answer 1

In case you want to get some estimate of relative speeds, some community wiki test code. Adjust as needed.

void f_cmp(uint32_t (*f1)(uint16_t x), uint32_t (*f2)(uint16_t x)) {
  uint16_t x = 0;
  do {
    uint32_t y1 = (*f1)(x);
    uint32_t y2 = (*f2)(x);
    if (y1 != y2) {
      printf("%4x %8lX %8lX\n", x, (unsigned long) y1, (unsigned long) y2);
    }
  } while (x++ != 0xFFFF);
}

void f_time(uint32_t (*f1)(uint16_t x)) {
  f_cmp(expand_bits, f1);
  clock_t t1 = clock();
  volatile uint32_t y1 = 0;
  unsigned n = 1000;
  for (unsigned i = 0; i < n; i++) {
    uint16_t x = 0;
    do {
      y1 += (*f1)(x);
    } while (x++ != 0xFFFF);
  }
  clock_t t2 = clock();
  printf("%6llu %6llu: %.6f %lX\n", (unsigned long long) t1,
          (unsigned long long) t2, 1.0 * (t2 - t1) / CLOCKS_PER_SEC / n,
          (unsigned long) y1);
  fflush(stdout);
}

int main(void) {
  f_time(expand_bits);
  f_time(expandBits);
  f_time(remask);
  f_time(javey);
  f_time(thndrwrks_expand);
  // now in the other order
  f_time(thndrwrks_expand);
  f_time(javey);
  f_time(remask);
  f_time(expandBits);
  f_time(expand_bits);
  return 0;
}

Results

     0    280: 0.000280 FE0C0000 // fast
   280    702: 0.000422 FE0C0000
   702   1872: 0.001170 FE0C0000
  1872   3026: 0.001154 FE0C0000
  3026   4399: 0.001373 FE0C0000 // slow

  4399   5740: 0.001341 FE0C0000
  5740   6879: 0.001139 FE0C0000
  6879   8034: 0.001155 FE0C0000
  8034   8470: 0.000436 FE0C0000
  8486   8751: 0.000265 FE0C0000