6 May
2004
6 May
'04
7:39 p.m.
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. That was some years ago, and there may have been ways to optimise the naive code that I didn't try. Still, I wouldn't write this off on speed grounds without measuring it. -- Dave Harris, Nottingham, UK