[A6] A6 bank manager etc

[Reid]

At 12:00 PM -0700 6/27/02, a6-request at code404.com wrote:
>agree it's a better term than packing/unpacking).  The one nice thing
>with the A6 as opposed to the QS is that the parameters are not packed
>in like they are on the QS buffers.  Getting to individual parameters in
>the QS patch buffers often involved bit-shifting operations and such - a

Geoff

Actually the encoding is almost the same. The A6 leaves off the top 
bit first, and the QS--if I remember correctly, I don't have access 
to that info anymore--leaves off the bottom first. You can look at it 
this way: in each case you just have to re-map bit to bit. Then using 
bit-shifting and ORing to make it go faster than one bit at a time.

"Packing" always sounded like a form of compression to me. All the 
bits are there, just spread out. The 8/7 or 7/8 would just refer to 
which direction you're going. I'm less bugged by the term "packing". 
I was feeling pretty opinionated when I wrote that last Fall.

Reid


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