[HACKERS] Short varlena header bit-packing options

2007-02-18 Thread Gregory Stark
I've sent a message on the subject of 2-byte headers and choice of bitpatterns twice during the mail outage last night. They may come through eventually but please ignore them as the situation has changed as new evidence has come to light. I was previously doing the second of the two bitpatterns

[HACKERS] Short varlena header bit-packing options

2007-02-18 Thread Gregory Stark
I've sent a message on the subject of 2-byte headers and choice of bitpatterns twice during the mail outage last night. They may come through eventually but please ignore them as the situation has changed as new evidence has come to light. I was previously doing the second of the two bitpatterns

[HACKERS] Short varlena header bit-packing options

2007-02-18 Thread Gregory Stark
I'm currently doing the second of these two proposals: --- Begin Message --- Gregory Stark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In any case it seems a bit backwards to me. Wouldn't it be better to > preserve bits in the case of short length words where they're precious > rather than long ones? If we mak