The Ptah Wire Format
The wire format describes how messages can be encoded into a stream of bytes suitable for transmission over a channel, or over another transport layer such as the network or a serial port.
Primitives
Primitives are transmitted as little-endian and packed to their natural alignment. The following primitive types are recognised:
| Name | Size (bytes) | Description |
|---|---|---|
bool | 1 | A boolean value |
u8, u16, u32, u64, u128 | 1, 2, 4, 8 | An unsigned integer |
i8, i16, i32, i64, i128 | 1, 2, 4, 8 | A signed integer |
f32, f64 | 4, 8 | Single / double-precision IEEE-754 FP values |
char | 4 | A single UTF-8 Unicode scalar value |