dineshv: > Yes, "integer compression" as in Unary, Golomb, and there are a few > other schemes.
OK. Currently Python doesn't uses Golomb and similar compression schemes. But in Python3 all integers are multi-precision ones (I don't know yet what's bad with the design of Python2.6 integers), and a multi- precision integer takes a space that is proportional to its number of bits, so this is a compression scheme (even if not designed for small integers as you ask for). Bye, bearophile -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
