In a previous post on parsing PNG images in I very briefly mentioned cyclic redundancy checks, and posted a rather cryptic looking function which I claimed was a bit inefficient. In this post I want to follow up on that a bit and see how we can speed up these calculations. For reference, this post was done with Mojo 24.5, so a few language details have changed since my last post (e.g. math.bit got moved to the top-level bit and a few of it’s functions have been renamed). I actually wrote m...
