Hi Willy, On Wed, Jul 4, 2018 at 4:41 AM Willy Tarreau <w@xxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 03, 2018 at 09:43:06PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote: > Well, in this case it's even possible to go further and avoid storing > 36 strings. Indeed, no representation is longer than 5 symbols, so you > can use 5 bits for the encoding (0=".", 1="-") and 3 bits for the > length, it gives you a single byte per character instead of a pointer > to a string plus 6 chars. Then in order to make it readable, 5 macros > can be provided to emit the code : And using the scheme from https://plus.google.com/u/0/117536210417097546339/posts/hvctn17WUZu you can store up to 7 symbols in a single byte, which you need when going beyond plain alphanumeric: -0111111 --011111 ---01111 ----0111 -----011 ------01 -------0 Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds
