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Offsets and lengths are stored as unsigned 32 bit integers. This saves space/memory, but means it won’t work for anything bigger than 4 GB

Maybe that’s overly conservative. Wouldn’t be hard to change




With most processors being 64-bit today, what would be the impact of using uint64 everywhere?




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