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Jarred
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Hop: Faster than unzip and tar at reading individu...
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
jonny_eh
on Nov 10, 2021
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With most processors being 64-bit today, what would be the impact of using uint64 everywhere?
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Maybe that’s overly conservative. Wouldn’t be hard to change