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Sylvain Lebresne commented on CASSANDRA-9499:
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bq. Could you give an example of where this would be helpful?
I assumed that knowing a given integer can't be negative could lead to more
efficient encoding (either one that shoves more (positive) values in less bytes
or one that is more efficient out of having less cases to consider). That said,
I haven't really look at our vint encoding so if neither is true (or is
negligible) then lets forget about it. But just to be clear, I'm not talking of
dealing with unsigned ints/longs (hence my quotes on unsigned, it's the wrong
word to use), just of potentially optimizing the encoding on the assumption the
value is positive (as we have many case where we'll know it's the case).
> Introduce writeVInt method to DataOutputStreamPlus
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> Key: CASSANDRA-9499
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-9499
> Project: Cassandra
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Core
> Reporter: Benedict
> Assignee: Ariel Weisberg
> Priority: Minor
> Fix For: 3.0 beta 1
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> CASSANDRA-8099 really could do with a writeVInt method, for both fixing
> CASSANDRA-9498 but also efficiently encoding timestamp/deletion deltas. It
> should be possible to make an especially efficient implementation against
> BufferedDataOutputStreamPlus.
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