my tl;dr: after reading the article: - two 64-bits words representation - fixed, 32 bits length - short strings (<12 bytes) are stored in-place - long strin

my tl;dr: after reading the article: - two 64-bits words representation - fixed, 32 bits length - short strings (<12 bytes) are stored in-place - long strings store a 4 byte prefix in-place + pointer to the rest - two bits are used as flags in the pointer to further optimize some use-cases