From: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Date: Wed, 17 May 2017 16:59:24 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/23] refs: use `size_t` indexes when iterating over ref transaction updates
Message-ID: <CAGZ79kYspKC=NZDp8q46KO2pGBfsAfK8A=2PRDb2O1swOLf6MQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 5:05 AM, Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> wrote:

Now this would want to have some selling words for it?
I do not see an advantage of this patch as-is.

I mean technically we don't need a sign, so we use that extra bit
to be able to process transactions up to twice the size. But I doubt
that is the real reason. I'll read on, maybe a later patch will explain
why we do this here.

Stefan