[vtk-developers] Power-of-two

David Lonie david.lonie at kitware.com
Fri Mar 8 14:46:05 EST 2013


On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 2:37 PM, David Thompson
<david.thompson at kitware.com>wrote:

> Hi David,
>
> > Do you have ideas for what it should be called?  It isn't quite
> > log2(x), because, unlike most integer math operations, it rounds up
> > instead of truncating.
>
> These are the alternatives I can think of, in order of descending personal
> preference:
>
> + CeilLog2
> + NextPowerOfTwo


These two are the clearest names to me. The others aren't exactly clear
what the function does.

Dave
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