I'm searching for a faster way for my required special extract and combine operation as described below: +-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+ | BIT 7 | BIT 6 | BIT 5 | ...

I'm not sure the exact term for what I'm trying to do. I have an 8x8 block of bits stored in 8 bytes, each byte stores one row. When I'm finished, I'd like each byte to store one column. For exampl...