The epoch system is a new pier format primarily geared to ameliorate jet mismatches during event log replays.
Urbit piers are currently formatted as such:
zod/.urb
├── bhk # backup snapshot
│ ├── north.bin
I am undertaking a refactor of the pointer compression loom migration. Refactoring this migration (the only "loom migration" we currently have in the repository) will also serve as scaffolding for future loom migrations.
Currently, pointer compression is implemented as a feature which depends
on a "virtual bits" flag, u3C.vits_w
. This flag is set at runtime based