David Hutto, 21.12.2010 12:02:
On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 5:45 AM, Alan Gauld wrote:
8 bytes to describe an int which could be represented in
a single byte in binary (or even in CSV).
Well, "CSV" indicates that there's at least one separator character
involved, so make that an asymptotic 2 bytes on average. But obviously,
compression applies to CSV and other 'readable' formats as well.
But that byte can't describe the tag
Yep, that's an argument that Alan already presented.
Stefan
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