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klysm
855 days ago
Yeah it doesn't make sense to pick something that's not a power of 2 unless you are packing it.
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postalrat
855 days ago
I guess that depends on how the index works.
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gfody
855 days ago
we usually work with some page size anyways, 64 5-byte ints fit nicely into 5 512-bit registers, and ~1T is a pretty flexible cardinality limit after ~2B
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