[hdjrudni]

I wish I came across this article a couple months ago.

I was trying to encode and decode some buffers into an arbitrary base, and I eventually came to the conclusion (after far too long) that a carry could ripple all the way down the buffer, which dramatically slows down the algorithm.

Actually, the eventual solution I came up might have some stuff in common with this trick too. I did eventually chunk up the buffer leaving some unused headroom to 'handle carries'. Not exactly though, I just have some wasted bits which uses a tiny bit more storage or network bandwidth but saves on compute. I wonder if I could instead pool up the carries like this and 'resolve' it in a later step. Have my cake and eat it too? Wishful thinking.