I have a linear list of zeros and ones and I need to match multiple simple patterns and find the first occurrence. For example, I might need to find 0001101101
,
If it's a bit array, I suppose doing a rolling sum would be an improvement. If pattern is length n
, sum the first n
bits and see if it matches the pattern's sum. Store the first bit of the sum always. Then, for every next bit, subtract the first bit from the sum and add the next bit, and see if the sum matches the pattern's sum. That would save the linear loop over the pattern.
It seems like the BM algorithm isn't as awesome for this as it looks, because here I only have two possible values, zero and one, so the first table doesn't help a whole lot. Second table might help, but that means BMH is mostly worthless.
Edit: In my sleep-deprived state I couldn't understand BM, so I just implemented this rolling sum (it was really easy) and it made my search 3 times faster. Thanks to whoever mentioned "rolling hashes". I can now search through 321,750,000 bits for two 30-bit patterns in 5.45 seconds (and that's single-threaded), versus 17.3 seconds before.