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[-] 7heo@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)
[-] mattd@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 years ago

It’s actually worse than that. It looks like it uses a short to store the index, which is normally 2 bytes. So it takes 2 bytes for every byte stored in the metadata!

[-] glibg10b@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 years ago

I wonder if the index is even guaranteed to fit in a short in every case

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