Hmm, it makes sense now and explains everything. Unfortunately, I didn't see
the way to write fixed width number with CodedOutputStream. Is there a way
to do this?
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Varint does an encoding whose length changes with the size of the
number - hence the name. So it can use between 1 and 10 bytes. So when
the value _events_written changes, re-writing the same number at the
beginning of the file will use a different number of bytes.
If you want to write a number