Andreas Klebinger authored Aug 05, 2019 and Marge Bot committed Aug 14, 2019

We used to serialise large integers as strings. Now they are serialized
as a list of Bytes.

This changes the size for a Integer in the higher 64bit range from 77 to
9 bytes when written to disk.

The impact on the general case is small (<1% for interface files) as we
don't use many Integers. But for code that uses many this should be a
nice benefit.