/// <summary>Reads a zero-compressed encoded long from a byte array and returns it.</summary>
/// <param name="bytes">byte array with decode long</param>
/// <param name="start">starting index</param>
/// <exception cref="System.IO.IOException"/>
/// <returns>deserialized long</returns>
public static long ReadVLong(byte[] bytes, int start)
{
return(WritableComparator.ReadVLong(bytes, start));
}