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          opcodes be a signed integer instead of unsigned?
 
 
+Storage
+
+       The CIL metadata is a very compressed file format, even the 
+       sizes of blobs and strings are recorded in a compressed form.
+       Still, all strings are encoded using 16-bit chars, instead of the
+       more efficient UTF-8.
+