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

[Bela Ban (JIRA)]

    [ https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JGRP-1370?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=12799464#comment-12799464 ] 

Bela Ban commented on JGRP-1370:
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More links:
* http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/mahout/trunk/core/src/main/java/org/apache/mahout/math/Varint.java
* https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/docs/encoding?csw=1

                
> 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: Future
>
>
> 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

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