On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 4:39 PM, Cory Nelson <phro...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 2:48 PM, Richard Hipp <d...@sqlite.org> wrote: > What is the rationale for the 7-bit BINARY encoding? The performance impact > will surely outweigh any convenience of being able to treat blobs as > 0-terminated strings.
I tend to agree. Varint length + value should be faster, though this just needs to be measured, and it's likely that the 7-bit approach will be faster for very short blobs. Another possibility would be to use 31-bit encoding ;) or escape zero-bytes, and so on. Nico -- _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
