Major Description
Currently there is an oversharing problem in packedints that imposes too many requirements on improving it:
- every packed ints must be able to be loaded directly, or in ram, or iterated with.
- things like filepointers are expected to be adjusted (this is especially stupid) in all cases
- lots of unnecessary abstractions
- versioning etc is complex
None of this flexibility is needed or buys us anything, and it prevents performance improvements (e.g. i just want to add 3 bytes at the end of on-disk streams to reduce the number of bytebuffer calls and thats seriously impossible with the current situation).