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Meta String: A more space-efficient string encoding than UTF-8 in Fury
Background
But one byte can represent range 0~255, the significant bits are wasted, and this cost is not ignorable. In a dynamic serialization framework, such meta will take considerable cost compared to actual data. Since it uses less bits than utf8, it can bring 37.5% space cost savings compared to utf-8 and has a smaller encoded binary size, which uses less storage and makes the network transfer faster.
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