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Subject: Re: [9fans] Rstat needs three size fields?
Date: Mon,  7 Jul 2003 08:33:21 +0000
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rob pike, esq. wrote:
> 65536 is not a very big number in modern i/o systems.

Actally neither is 2^32.
What the world needs is an efficient variable-length
encoding of unsigned integers.