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Technically they can also use variable length integers or even "BigIntegers" but they process slower.
by Nasrudith 6y ago
Technically they can also use variable length integers or even "BigIntegers" but they process slower.
- acdha 6y agoYes - I said 64-bit because that’s a natural size now and for high volume like this it seems likely that they’d prefer a fixed size to savings which make decode and recovery logic harder and less cache line efficient.