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From: Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org>
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Subject: Re: On endianness, many #ifdefs, and the need thereof
Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2019 14:28:05 -0700
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David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> writes:
[...]
> A little look suggests that it is for parsing binary JSON formats (like
> UBJSON), rather than standard text-based JSON.  But is still not
> necessary, and I doubt if the code's algorithm is more efficient than
> the obvious endian independent method.

FYI, my browser shows me a "This site may be hacked." warning for
    http://ubjson.org/
I haven't investigated further.

-- 
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst-u@mib.org  <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
Will write code for food.
void Void(void) { Void(); } /* The recursive call of the void */