[Illniyar]

And did knowledge of bits help solve the memory issue?

[MichaelGG]

I've done stuff where memory usage shrank from 30-60GB to under 2GB, and load times went from many minutes to essentially instant (mmap on the bits Vs needing to build objects).

[afpx]

That was implicit. Of course it did! :-) And, cut server costs in half, too.

[auggierose]

I like bits, too, but cutting it in half means it is still exponential ;-)

[afpx]

To be fair, the savings are way above 50%, honestly. But, I didn't want to claim a bigger number without digging in more, and 50% was a very conservative upper bound. But, yeah, you're right.