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Varint tag #4

Closed arj03 closed 1 year ago

arj03 commented 1 year ago

From #2:

have you considered instead using a varint or similar, in case the far future needs more than 256 types of semantics? one promising candidate is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LEB128

arj03 commented 1 year ago

For now this field is removed because the semantics of tombstone was not clearly defined when you have a DAG instead of a linear structure.

AljoschaMeyer commented 1 year ago

Obligatory remark that LEB128 suffers from easily avoidable issues that everybody loves to ignore. Plugging my own thingy as an alternative of course.