Bijou64: A variable-length integer encoding
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Variable-length integer encoding, relevant to data engineering.
Summary
Bijou64, a variable-length integer encoding for the Subduction CRDT sync protocol, enforces canonical representation to eliminate signature-verification bugs that plague LEB128 and other varints. Designed for security, it inadvertently runs several times faster than LEB128 by avoiding separate canonicality checks. This shows how constraint-driven design can yield both correctness and performance gains.