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byte order

noun

Definitions

  1. Order in which bytes are written or read, in memory or through a transmission

    Order in which bytes are written or read, in memory or through a transmission; choices being big-endian or little-endian.

  2. Relating to the order of bytes, the endianness.

    • So that machines with different byte order conventions can communicate, the Internet protocols specify a canonical byte order convention for data transmitted over the network. This is known as network byte order.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for byte order. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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