Most efficient way to reverse the order of a BitArray?

Question

I've been wondering what the most efficient way to reverse the order of a BitArray in C#. To be clear, I don't want to inverse the Bitarray by calling .Not(), I want to reverse the order of the bits in the array.

Cheers, Chris

Answer 1

public void Reverse(BitArray array)
{
    int length = array.Length;
    int mid = (length / 2);

    for (int i = 0; i < mid; i++)
    {
        bool bit = array[i];
        array[i] = array[length - i - 1];
        array[length - i - 1] = bit;
    }    
}

Answer 2

For a long array and relative few uses, just wrap it:

    class BitArrayReverse
    {
        private BitArray _ba;

        public BitArrayReverse(BitArray ba) { _ba = ba; }

        public bool this[int index]
        {
            get { return _ba[_ba.Length - 1 - index]; }
            set { _ba[_ba.Length - 1 - index] = value; }
        }

    }

Answer 3

This will be the best way to reverse MSB <-> LSB of any length using XOR in the for loop

public static BitArray BitsReverse(BitArray bits)
{
    int len = bits.Count;
    BitArray a = new BitArray(bits);
    BitArray b = new BitArray(bits);

    for (int i = 0, j = len-1; i < len; ++i, --j)
    {
         a[i] = a[i] ^ b[j];
         b[j] = a[i] ^ b[j];
         a[i] = a[i] ^ b[j];
    }

    return a; 
} 
// in   010000011010000011100b
// out  001110000010110000010b