From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-05-06 20:47:46
brangdon_at_[hidden] (Dave Harris) writes:
> In-Reply-To: <c7bsah$27c$1_at_[hidden]>
> ianmcc_at_[hidden] (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