[jboss-jira] [JBoss JIRA] (JGRP-1370) Use variable-length encoding for primitive data types int, long, short

Use variable-length encoding for primitive data types int, long, short ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Key: JGRP-1370 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JGRP-1370 Project: JGroups Issue Type: Enhancement Reporter: Bela Ban Assignee: Bela Ban Fix For: 3.3 Use variable-length encoding [1], to compress data on the wire even more. We currently compress longs and long ranges, but prefix them with a length byte. Using variable-length encoding, we can save that byte for most values. [1] http://lucene.apache.org/java/2_4_0/fileformats.html#VInt