creating very small types

[Michael Spencer]

andrea wrote:
> No it's not for homework but for learning purposes...

Bengt wrote:
> I think I prefer little-endian bit streams though, 

good point: should lead to easier decoding via right-shifts

e.g. (just hacked, not tested beyond
> what you see 

Yep, yours looks better.  Pretty soon there isn't going to be much learning left 
in this for Andrea ;-)

and not recommended as efficient either way, esp the decode,

I expect that decoding by walking the coding tree is cleaner (not sure about 
faster).


but it might
> be illustrative of something for Andrea  ;-) 

Michael