On Wed, Aug 4, 2021 at 3:01 PM Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
> Extending that to arbitrary lengths obviously at some point makes the encoding
> in unary wasteful, and the benefit of few branches vanishes. So what I was
> thinking is that for variable length pieces of data that are not limited to 8
> bytes, we could replace the '8 0 bits' special case with a new special case:
> The length in bytes follows as a max-8-byte varint.
But what if I have a machine with more than 16 exabytes of RAM and I
want to use all of its memory to store one really big integer?
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Robert Haas
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