writeVInt

Writes an int in a variable-length format. Writes between one and five bytes. Smaller values take fewer bytes. Negative numbers are supported, but should be avoided.

VByte is a variable-length format for positive integers is defined where the high-order bit of each byte indicates whether more bytes remain to be read. The low-order seven bits are appended as increasingly more significant bits in the resulting integer value. Thus values from zero to 127 may be stored in a single byte, values from 128 to 16,383 may be stored in two bytes, and so on.

VByte Encoding Example

This provides compression while still being efficient to decode.

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Throws