On Mon, 22 Jun 2026 at 13:00, Robert A.H. Leahy <rleahy_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> You're ignoring the fact that views::from_big_endian_bytes is less
> generally applicable than views::from_big_endian.
>
> If I have some structure:
>
> struct message {
> std::uint16_t message_type;
> std::array<uint16_t, 5> data;
> };
>
> Then views::from_big_endian is a good fit for consuming the wire-endian
> data array, whereas views::from_big_endian_bytes is not.
>

I would not use a view in this situation at all, but make a function that
takes an array and returns an array with each element byte-swapped.

But I guess that's a bit beside the point; if there was a really large
amount of data, you may approach this differently, but if there was a large
amount of data, maybe you wouldn't eagerly load it all into memory either,
or keep it memory-mapped, or something. This is all a bit academic.


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