7 May
2004
7 May
'04
1:47 a.m.
brangdon@cix.compulink.co.uk (Dave Harris) writes:
In-Reply-To: <c7bsah$27c$1@sea.gmane.org> ianmcc@lorentz.leidenuniv.nl (Ian McCulloch) wrote (abridged):
Nice idea. I was thinking along the lines of how to achieve high-performance, with shared memory & fast network message passing in mind.
I have some experience of that kind of code being quicker than code which naively treats an int as 4 bytes. There was enough compression that the bandwidth saving (eg on disk i/o) compensated for the complexity of the code.
Me too. You can even win on RAM cache locality. -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting http://www.boost-consulting.com