Re:Byte Ordering: On Holy Wars and a Plea for Peace (1980)
by tekacs on Monday September 16, 2024 @05:10AM
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This comes in really really handy in lexicographical ordering.
For example, if storing in the keys of a KV store a pattern of:
[u32, String, u32, String, …]
If you want those arrays to be sorted lexicographically, you’ll want to store those u32 instances in big endian, so that both those and the strings sort from left-to-right.
For example, if storing in the keys of a KV store a pattern of:
[u32, String, u32, String, …]
If you want those arrays to be sorted lexicographically, you’ll want to store those u32 instances in big endian, so that both those and the strings sort from left-to-right.