[sdiy] MIDI bytestream parser

[Neil Johnson]

Hi Jason,

> another option might be a jumptable off (((byte - 0x80) >> 4) -  
> 0x8), with a further jumptable for the selector off 0xf0.
>
> first jumptable has 8 entries, the second has 16.

Well, yes you could, but that's more code and more processing, when  
you can do it with a single jumptable.  Note that the system realtime  
messages are treated separately to minimise the processing time.

> makes me less nervous than a hashtable, and faster too :-)

Are you sure?

Neil
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