Why int rather than short for packed output variables?

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Open kafitzgerald opened 4 years ago

kafitzgerald commented 4 years ago

We currently store packed output variables using scale + offset as int. Ideally these would be stored as short.

Just another thing to look into re: outputs

rcabell commented 2 years ago

Agreed, using int vs float saves no (uncompressed ) space as both are 32-bit.