[THRIFT-3217] Provide a little endian variant of the binary protocol in C++

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.9.3
• Fix Version/s: 0.9.3
• Component/s: C++ - Library
• Assignee: Ben Craig
• Reporter: Ben Craig
• Created: 02/Jul/15 01:38
• Updated: 09/Jul/15 13:18
• Resolved: 09/Jul/15 01:58

Description

Most computers these days are little endian. With Thrift's current binary protocol, we end up adjusting endianness on both sides of the connection most of the time. We should provide a variant that is optimized for the common case of little endian machines.