On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 10:31 AM, Robert Muir <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm having a tough time remembering what these packed ints options do > (I thought the perf boost from allowing overhead came from upgrading > to the next byte boundary?)
Upgrading to the next byte boundary, or using PACKED_SINGLE_BLOCK when possible. > Anyway: again I'm a little concerned about the wikipedia benchmark > here for this purpose. We should find another corpus/corpora to also test... > For e.g. structured content from databases (tiny fields) where the > numbers are much tinier on average the numbers could be different. I'm > also worried about the fact > that decode speed is over-emphasized in the wikipedia benchmark since > all the I/O is hot. True. > So I think if its this ambiguous for wikipedia we should shoot for the > most COMPACT form as a safe default. +1 Mike McCandless http://blog.mikemccandless.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
