[chuck-dev] coding suggestions

[Niklas Werner]

Hi all,

I'd like to suggest the following:

use GNU getopt() for the command line options (--optionArgument is just 
greatly confusing: --option Argument is so much nicer, and you get rid of 
all the else if() in chuck_main.

(plus I can offer my help in converting chuck_main to getopt(), if you 
want me to go ahead)


Your next_power_2() function seems to waste loads of cycles, although this 
doesn't really matter, as it is only used at startup, but wouldn't that 
be a nice feature for the language anyway?

Try:

/* Thanks to music-dsp mailing-list */

inline unsigned nextPowerOfTwo (unsigned n)
{
  unsigned prevN;
  for (prevN = n; n &= n-1; prevN = n)
  ;
  return (prevN * 2);
}

much faster...


Cheers,

Niklas
--
Computer Music PhD-student
University of Waikato
Hamilton
New Zealand