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Re:Fast key-value stores: An idea whose time has come and gone by shereadsthenews on Monday June 24, 2019 @11:51AM (#20264787)
Encoding an image as a repeated sequence of variable-length integers would obviously be a poor choice.
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Re:Fast key-value stores: An idea whose time has come and gone by rootlocus on Monday June 24, 2019 @01:03PM (#20265727)
Except.. that's pretty much how raw images are represented. Substituting "integers" for "bytes" if you want channel resolution, or leaving integers if you have 32bit pixel depth.

https://github.com/nothings/stb/blob/master/stb_image.h#L120

https://wiki.libsdl.org/SDL_Surface

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Re:Fast key-value stores: An idea whose time has come and gone by pwodhouse on Monday June 24, 2019 @04:48PM (#20268308)
You overlooking the critical term: variable-length.
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