No, that's an interesting idea though. Hard to imagine how that would help with the code correctness issues, though. I haven't even dug into algorithmic correctness yet so I have no real idea whether there's room for improvement there--although I sure do suspect there is!
EDIT: Oh my. After digging into the code I found this gem:
fn encode_rle(&self, value: u64, count: usize) -> u64 {
let selector = Simple8bSelector::RLE as u64;
(selector << 60) | ((count as u64) << 30) | (value & 0x3FFFFFFF)
}
And this one:
fn try_rle(&self, input: &[u64]) -> Option<(u64, usize)> {
if input.is_empty() {
return None;
}
let value = input[0];
let mut count = 1;
for &x in input.iter().skip(1) {
if x != value || count >= 0x3FFFFFFF { // Max 30-bit run length
break;
}
count += 1;
}
Some((value, count))
}
What even is going on here? Compare to an actually sane implementation like[1] or[2].
Actually I was wrong about where the error was here, encode_rle actually works like it should the shift isn't the problem there. It actually blew up later in a different place. The second one is just a bizarre way to write that but sure, it counts the first N repeats in the input slice.. There's plenty of bizarre stuff in here[1], but mostly the general shape of the idea is directionally correct. A couple notably questionable things, though, like the assumption that RLE is always the way to go if the run length is greater than 8, perplexing style choices, etc.
