[LLVMdev] [PATCH / PROPOSAL] bitcode encoding that is ~15% smaller for large bitcode files...

[Renato Golin]

On 26 September 2012 22:08, Jan Voung <jvoung at chromium.org> wrote:
> I think most of the instructions operands are encoded as VBR(N)
> for some N number of bits, and it seems to me that VBR(8) is like ULEB?
> I think that the default N is 6 bits, but I haven't tried tweaking these
> parameters.

It has a similar purpose, but slightly different. SLEB (the signed
version) wouldn't use the whole word for -1, since the sign expansion
happens after the number is encoded to 7 bits package, so any negative
number that can be represented using 7 bits would still be stored in a
byte.


-- 
cheers,
--renato

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