Streamvbyte Alternatives

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• Another variable-length integer encoding
  2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Aug 2024

  Stream VByte[1,2,3] is not far away from that idea, storing the packed lengths in a separate stream from the data bytes. (There’s also a more conventional interleaved design in varint-G8IU, but Stepanov decided to fuck everyone over and patented that.)

  [1] https://lemire.me/blog/2017/09/27/stream-vbyte-breaking-new-...

  [2] https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.08990

  [3] https://github.com/lemire/streamvbyte

• XZ: A Microcosm of the interactions in Open Source projects
  7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Mar 2024

  Be direct and put the onus on the reporter/contributor to do more work before you will engage.

  e.g., here is Daniel Lemire responding to a very open-ended bug report: https://github.com/lemire/streamvbyte/issues/72

  There is something similar in customer service for my SaaS. Customers give horribly vague bug reports. I used to try to divine what they wanted. That way leads burnout. Instead, make them do more of the work.

• Compress-a-Palooza: Unpacking 5 Billion Varints in only 4 Billion CPU Cycles
  2 projects | /r/rust | 21 May 2023

  You're right, I used a lot of unsafe. I started with the implementation from the C source and then my main goal was to add a bounds-check without sacrificing performance. I got there by manually unrolling the inner loop a few times and then bounds checking only once per iteration of the outer loop. So instead of 1 bounds check for every 4 inputs, I have one every 16 or 32 inputs (with a correspondingly more conservative bounds check).

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