Fix the difference method on bit vectors #4546
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I was looking into the
difference
method on the bit vector implementations, and I found that it didn't quite align with what I thought of as the difference between two sets.For
SmallBitv
, the difference was just the xor of the two vectors, which I'm not really sure what it's supposed to represent. ForBigBitv
, it almost did the difference except that it added in lots of bits which weren't related to the two bit vectors.I figured that the difference method should return the set-wise difference:
so I updated both of the difference methods to do that and added some tests to do that. If this isn't right, the two implementations (SmallBitv/BigBitv) appear to do different things, so they should probably be unified to one thing anyway.