[Vorbis] Block sizes
Graham Mitchell
graham at grahammitchell.com
Sat Sep 3 10:13:48 PDT 2005
> In section 4.2.2, the text for lines 7 and 8 say, "2 exponent (read 4 bits
> as unsigned integer)". This gave me the impression that the block size
> being read (call it "x") is finalized as x^2 (an exponent of 2)
> mathematically.
What you're doing works out to 2^x. To do x^2, it'd say "(read 4 bits as
unsigned integer) exponent 2".
Note that 1 << x is probably much faster than 2^x in hardware.
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