Variable length quantity

2021-10-30

An arbitrary size integer. One bit in each byte signals wether the byte is the last byte.

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→ dabric file headers

← byte size prefixed values

← dabric file headers

← identifier number size does not matter for storage space and readability

← encoding the byte count of values

← random ids versus id sequence

← should we have separate sequence for the children of each parent entity?

← timestamps as offsets

← using custom offset for millisecond precision unix epoch is not worth it

← timestamps as offsets

→ identifier number size does not matter for storage space and readability

→ using custom offset for millisecond precision unix epoch is not worth it

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