neo4j/community — pull request #398 by tinwelint (2012-04-07 21:28:39+00:00)
Title: byte[] properties are handles differently, in that they aren't analyzed ...

...for bit packing,

due to its unlikelyness of deflating, and also the cost of analyzing it if the size of
the array is big.

Store format isn't changed and write performance is 5 times higher and read performance is
8 times higher on my test machine. This is getting very close to byte[] property performance
of versions < 1.5.