February 25, 2024
VByte / Varint
VByte trades bit-level precision for byte-alignment, and that trade wins in practice. Most production columnar databases and network protocols use VByte for integer encoding.
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VByte trades bit-level precision for byte-alignment, and that trade wins in practice. Most production columnar databases and network protocols use VByte for integer encoding.