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0 pointsbonzini3y ago0 comments

It's about variable-length encodings, not variable length integers.

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Yeah. The (63-nlz)/7 is part of a piece of code implementing an encoding. nlz is an int.

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0 pointsbonzini3y ago0 comments

It's about variable-length encodings, not variable length integers.

Yeah. The (63-nlz)/7 is part of a piece of code implementing an encoding. nlz is an int.

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