Try to recognize below popcount implemented in hacker's delight:
int popcount32(unsigned i) {
i = i - ((i >> 1) & 0x55555555);
i = (i & 0x33333333) + ((i >> 2) & 0x33333333);
i = ((i + (i >> 4)) & 0x0F0F0F0F);
return (i * 0x01010101) >> 24;
}This helps platforms which support harware popcount instruction(eg: PowerPC) get some gain for benchmark deepsjeng of cpu2017.
Can we std::move this into specific_intval constructor and then std::move it again in the class. Otherwise we're making multiple heap allocations whenever the value is more the 64 bits.