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You're just moving the complexity from strings into unsigned integers. Your strings are limited by the size of whatever you put in the head of the string. Sure
by konjin 6y ago
You're just moving the complexity from strings into unsigned integers. Your strings are limited by the size of whatever you put in the head of the string.
Sure 16 exabytes sounds like a lot today, but so did 4 billion ip addresses. Differently bad is not better.
- jdlshore 6y agoI didn’t say anything about unsigned integers, or any specific approach to encoding strings at all, so I’m not sure what you’re trying to say here.