[sdiy] MIDI bytestream parser

[Neil Johnson]

Hi Olivier,

> When I mean user I really mean "user of the library". It looks like
> Neil's library exposes to the user of the library the channel numbers
> as 1-16. Just look here:
> http://code.google.com/p/miby/source/browse/trunk/src/miby.c#148

Yes indeed!

> Switch statements are likely to generate heavier code, because some
> compilers are unable to optimize them properly as jump tables - and
> they end up being compiled as a bunch of comparison / jump.

Even good compilers sometimes do poorly with switch statements.  And  
the quality of the generated code also depends on the underlaying  
instruction set support for jump tables.

> Given that
> this kind of code could very well be embedded on platforms with 2 or
> 4k of code memory with lousy compilers, this is a sane thing to do.

Thanks!

Neil
--
http://www.njohnson.co.uk