Reverse Bits

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Reverse bits of a given 32 bits unsigned integer.

For example, given input 43261596 (represented in binary as 00000010100101000001111010011100), return 964176192 (represented in binary as 00111001011110000010100101000000).

Follow up:
If this function is called many times, how would you optimize it?

思路

public class Solution {
    // you need treat n as an unsigned value
    public int reverseBits(int n) {
        int result = 0;
        for (int i = 0; i < 32; i++) {
            int a = (n >> i) & 1;
            result = (result << 1) | a;
        }

        return result;
    }
}

Follow up

How to optimize if this function is called multiple times? We can divide an int into 4 bytes, and reverse each byte then combine into an int. For each byte, we can use cache to improve performance.

used the cache to improve performance

以4位为单位执行反转，将0x0至0xF的反转结果预存在一个长度为16的数组中，反转时直接查询即可。

// cache
private final Map<Byte, Integer> cache = new HashMap<Byte, Integer>();
public int reverseBits(int n) {
    byte[] bytes = new byte[4];
    for (int i = 0; i < 4; i++) // convert int into 4 bytes
        bytes[i] = (byte)((n >>> 8*i) & 0xFF);
    int result = 0;
    for (int i = 0; i < 4; i++) {
        result += reverseByte(bytes[i]); // reverse per byte
        if (i < 3)
            result <<= 8;
    }
    return result;
}

private int reverseByte(byte b) {
    Integer value = cache.get(b); // first look up from cache
    if (value != null)
        return value;
    value = 0;
    // reverse by bit
    for (int i = 0; i < 8; i++) {
        value += ((b >>> i) & 1);
        if (i < 7)
            value <<= 1;
    }
    cache.put(b, value);
    return value;
}