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Most modern developers (those who got started >2000) never had to worry about hyperefficiency — i.e., bitpacking. To them bandwidth, like diskspace, is near inf
by PeterCorless 2y ago
Most modern developers (those who got started >2000) never had to worry about hyperefficiency — i.e., bitpacking. To them bandwidth, like diskspace, is near infinite and free. Who uses a single reserved bit to set a zero or a 1 these days when you can use a whole int32 (or int64)?
Yet I applaud your desire to make things more wire-efficient.
- jcgrillo 2y agoIn the cloud where data transfer fees dominate it's really important. Although nobody seems to realize this and they just pay the Amazon tax lol.
- PeterCorless 2y agoThe board gathers around the monthly cloud vendor bill and wonder why they need to raise a new round just to pay it off.