Counting the position of ones in a binary vector

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That code will give me the solution but i cannot buy that because i dont know what circuit it will boil down to and so i cannot guaranty that it will work at 266 MHz. Can you tell me what circuit it will amke out of that for loop ?? Thats why i want a gate level circuit..

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How can you expect to work at 266MHz with a purely combinatorial circuit?

plus, for loops do show the circuit if you understand how it works. Plus you could use the RTL viewer to look at the circuit.

A for loops makes the source code manageable.