// TODO: what is a good initialCapacity?
RunLengthBitPackingHybridEncoder encoder = new RunLengthBitPackingHybridEncoder(bitWidth, 64 * 1024);
IntIterator iterator = encodedValues.iterator();
try {
while (iterator.hasNext()) {
encoder.writeInt(iterator.next());
}
// encodes the bit width
byte[] bytesHeader = new byte[] { (byte) bitWidth };
BytesInput rleEncodedBytes = encoder.toBytes();
if (DEBUG) LOG.debug("rle encoded bytes " + rleEncodedBytes.size());