Vorbis - Aug 2000 - enidanism in the OggSquish logical bitstream framing format...

why store multibyte values as little endinan?

wouldn't it make a lot more sense to use network byte order? (big-endian,
most
significant byte 1st)??

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> why store multibyte values as little endinan?
You misunderstand what is happening.  Vorbis packets have no word boundaries 
or specific word width and values are not octet aligned.  The mapping places 
bits in an order that can be described as 'little endian', but the
values can
be any number of bits.
> wouldn't it make a lot more sense to use network byte order?
(big-endian, most
> significant byte 1st)??
No.  Little endian is more efficient for unpacking words that are neither 
integral octets, nor on octet boundaries.

Monty

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