BUG-2459: Default to byte-aligned encoding

Switches from preCompress encoding, and optimizes things a bit more.

Change-Id: I77afc3e7c105d5a5711852f3f63a63bada96613f
Signed-off-by: Robert Varga <rovarga@cisco.com>
Merge "BUG-2459: Default to byte-aligned encoding"