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Re:The Sandstorm Team Is Joining Cloudflare by kentonv on Monday March 13, 2017 @06:08PM (#13862918)
Well, you could look at it that way. But the "encoding" is the same encoding that an "int" field in a struct uses, and "decoding" it is a trivial load instruction.
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Re:The Sandstorm Team Is Joining Cloudflare by lastofus on Monday March 13, 2017 @06:57PM (#13863339)
At what point is byte ordering handled?
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Re:The Sandstorm Team Is Joining Cloudflare by kentonv on Monday March 13, 2017 @07:12PM (#13863444)
The format is little-endian, so it's necessary to use a little-endian load instruction, which almost all architectures (including most big-endian architectures) have.

(But every widely-used arch these days is LE.)

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