[yogeshpandey]

Agree with this. Space used by keys can be reduced by hashing the key. Or for IPs they can be converted to an int value.

[clairity]

an ip as an int will be converted back to binary to be stored, so will still require 4 bytes to store (uncompressed). unless i'm missing something?

[yogeshpandey]

Yes that's what I meant. The best size from Ipv4 is 4 bytes. Its better instead of using 111.111.111.111

[jerf]

In addition to the 15 bytes used by the string itself, which will be rounded up to a minimum of 16 bytes in RAM (and probably larger), the string carries additional words for pointers and data, whereas the int is just 4 bytes and done. Go can use it as a value type so there doesn't even have to be another couple of words wrapping it as an "object" or something. Plus you can potentially start optimizing for the int case with various clever things more easily, because it's so tight it gets down into the realm where bit bashing games can be used to potentially avoid cache line hits, etc. whereas the string representation isn't so amenable to that.

[clairity]

gotcha, it didn't immediately occur to me to store it as a string, so that's why i was puzzled.