#! /usr/bin/lua function popcount(x0) -- adapted from https://gist.github.com/davidm/2065267 local x = x0 local c = 0 while x ~= 0 do x = x & (x - 1) c = c + 1 end return c end function sortbyonebits(a) local b = a local c = {} for _, v in ipairs(b) do if c[v] == nil then c[v] = popcount(v) end end table.sort(b, function(a, b) if c[a] == c[b] then return a < b else return c[a] < c[b] end end) return b end -- by Michael Anderson at -- https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8722620/comparing-two-index-tables-by-index-value-in-lua -- modified by Roger function recursive_compare(t1,t2) -- Use usual comparison first. if t1==t2 then return true end -- We only support non-default behavior for tables if (type(t1)~="table") then return false end -- They better have the same metatables local mt1 = getmetatable(t1) local mt2 = getmetatable(t2) if( not recursive_compare(mt1,mt2) ) then return false end -- Build list of all keys local kk = {} for k1, _ in pairs(t1) do kk[k1] = true end for k2, _ in pairs(t2) do kk[k2] = true end -- Check each key that exists in at least one table for _, k in ipairs(kk) do if (not recursive_compare(t1[k], t2[k])) then return false end end return true end if recursive_compare(sortbyonebits({0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8}), {0, 1, 2, 4, 8, 3, 5, 6, 7}) then io.write("Pass") else io.write("FAIL") end io.write(" ") if recursive_compare(sortbyonebits({1024, 512, 256, 128, 64}), {64, 128, 256, 512, 1024}) then io.write("Pass") else io.write("FAIL") end print("")