More effective implementation of nxt_popcount().

This method requires as many iterations as there are set bits,
while the previous one has to shift up to the position of the
highest bit.

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/src/nxt_clang.h b/src/nxt_clang.h
index 0622aad3..a9b8cd9e 100644
--- a/src/nxt_clang.h
+++ b/src/nxt_clang.h
@@ -143,8 +143,8 @@ nxt_popcount(unsigned int x)
 {
     int  count;
 
-    for (count = 0; x != 0; x >>= 1) {
-        count += (x & 1);
+    for (count = 0; x != 0; count++) {
+        x &= x - 1;
     }
 
     return count;