100% agree. A very good implementation of your ideas can be found in the Redis codebase. Most important files have a long doc comment in the beginning. See htt

100% agree. A very good implementation of your ideas can be found in the Redis codebase. Most important files have a long doc comment in the beginning. See https://github.com/redis/redis/blob/unstable/src/ziplist.c https://github.com/redis/redis/blob/unstable/src/ziplist.c for an example.