Comment by PeterCorless
Comment by PeterCorless 15 hours ago
Most modern developers (those who got started >2000) never had to worry about hyperefficiency — i.e., bitpacking. To them bandwidth, like diskspace, is near infinite and free. Who uses a single reserved bit to set a zero or a 1 these days when you can use a whole int32 (or int64)?
Yet I applaud your desire to make things more wire-efficient.
In the cloud where data transfer fees dominate it's really important. Although nobody seems to realize this and they just pay the Amazon tax lol.