# InternPool: add an int_u8 value encoding · gitcafe/zig

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Requested revision: 2f9b7dc1023e9ff21574b559e22265db65e00d2d

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Commit: 2f9b7dc1023e9ff21574b559e22265db65e00d2d

Tree: df09a315169c8e9485057349ee4a007a9a2af2b8

Author: Andrew Kelley

Committer: Andrew Kelley

## Message

```
InternPool: add an int_u8 value encoding

On a simple input file, this had a total savings of 21% in the
InternPool:

Before:
    int_positive: 427 occurrences, 8975 total bytes
After:
    int_positive: 258 occurrences, 5426 total bytes
    int_u8: 169 occurrences, 845 total bytes

```

## Parents

- [4fe0c583be8890b1cb8059c2daff3bd82c53d2e9](https://git.cafe/gitcafe/zig/commit/4fe0c583be8890b1cb8059c2daff3bd82c53d2e9?format=markdown)

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