However, a 5 digit integer can also be represented by 12 bits.Īnd you can even pack them if this is all you really care about (there is a good reason why you wouldn't want to do this, as word alignment is much more important, as you would be able to directly map data to memory allocations, but let's for argument sake say that storage was king). "A 5 digit integer is 3 bytes less than the double to store it". If you follow this with compression algorithms, you'll likely not end up too far away in either case. Serializing text, is after all binary encoding data. But those constraint would make the whole discussion kinda silly. It can only ever by more efficient when representing a very low subset of values and the alternative binary representation is exceedingly poor. It is arguably one of the worst there is. > Text compression of number data is extremely efficient I'm not sure double values are required here or necessary.
And, one should do so with a good match on the range or required precision. Part of serialization is getting to pick how you encode numbers.
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