Yun Gao created FLINK-16009: ------------------------------- Summary: Native support for the Variable-length and Zig-zag Variable-length integers Key: FLINK-16009 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-16009 Project: Flink Issue Type: Improvement Components: API / Type Serialization System Reporter: Yun Gao
Currently Flink only support fixed-length integers. However, in many cases the values of the integer fields tend to be small, and we could reduce the size of serialized values by using [Variable length encoding|https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/docs/encoding#varints] and [Zig-zag variable-length encoding|https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/docs/encoding#signed-integers]. -- This message was sent by Atlassian Jira (v8.3.4#803005)