apple / apple/swift-distributed-actors
Generalize "serialized just as UniqueNodeID" compression technique?
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- Dominant language
- Swift
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- 677
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- 85
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Description
Today we special case Gossip serialization by invoking toCompactReplicaNodeIDProto on things.
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Research direction
Start by tracing Gossip serialization and its use of toCompactReplicaNodeIDProto. Determine what abstraction would generalize the current UniqueNodeID-specific compression technique, and define completion as removing the special-case limitation while preserving the existing compact serialization behavior.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- swift
- Domain
- distributed-systems
- Issue type
- Refactor
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100