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by herohamp 1990 days ago
Can somebody explain what this is actually doing? I am quite confused
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This is a Rust library for reading and writing the LEB128 integer compression format. LEB128 is a representation of arbitrary-size integers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LEB128

As I understand it, this library is optimized to avoid branching (which incur an overhead) and take advantage of SIMD instructions (which process data in parallel).