Aha!
Sounds good! :)
In the typed approach, the endianness becomes the property of the message.
I think this is the appropriate separation of concerns. The endianness is a property of how the data in the message is represented.
Ok, I don't want to belabor this point, as you are the expert in your domain, so I'm just going to say I am not convinced and leave it at that.
I see your point now for the in-place case. Thank you!
Great! Code always helps me, glad we were able to go on the same page.
I think this approach would have similar performance to your swap() and swap_in_place(). Tomorrow night, I'll make some measurements.
That would certainly be useful. However, I do contend that there are other effects, too, which will be hard to measure, which I discussed in another one of my emails. Tom