4. Discussion

4. Discussion

Support for both little- and big-endian representation may seem out of character with CBOR, which is otherwise fully big endian. This support is in line with the intended use of the typed arrays and the objective not to require conversion of each array element.

This specification allocates a sizable chunk out of the single-byte tag space. This use of code point space is justified by the wide use of typed arrays in data interchange.

Providing a column-major order variant of the multi-dimensional array may seem superfluous to some and useful to others. It is cheap to define the additional tag so that it is available when actually needed. Allocating it out of a different number space makes the preference for row-major evident.

Applying a Homogeneous Array tag to a Typed Array would usually be redundant and is therefore not provided by the present specification.