24-bit int

[Ilya Yaroshenko via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Saturday, 2 September 2017 at 03:29:20 UTC, EntangledQuanta 
wrote:
> On Saturday, 2 September 2017 at 02:49:41 UTC, Ilya Yaroshenko 
> wrote:
>> On Friday, 1 September 2017 at 19:39:14 UTC, EntangledQuanta 
>> wrote:
>>> Is there a way to create a 24-bit int? One that for all 
>>> practical purposes acts as such? This is for 24-bit stuff 
>>> like audio. It would respect endianness, allow for arrays 
>>> int24[] that work properly, etc.
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Probably you are looking for bitpack ndslice topology:
>> http://docs.algorithm.dlang.io/latest/mir_ndslice_topology.html#.bitpack
>>
>> sizediff_t[] data;
>> // creates a packed signed integer slice with max allowed 
>> value equal to `2^^24 - 1`.
>> auto packs = data[].sliced.bitpack!24;
>>
>> packs has the same API as D arrays
>>
>> Package is Mir Algorithm
>> http://code.dlang.org/packages/mir-algorithm
>>
>> Best,
>> Ilya
>
> Thanks. Seems useful.

Just added `bytegroup` topology. Released in v0.6.12 (will be 
available in DUB after few minutes.)

http://docs.algorithm.dlang.io/latest/mir_ndslice_topology.html#bytegroup

It is faster for your task then `bitpack`.

Best regards,
Ilya