Specification Glossary

The following defines specific terms used across the specifications that may require clarification, but inline definitions would otherwise add verbosity.

Enable, in the context of bitflags, means to set the corresponding bit to 1, also known as on.

Serializer refers to the functionality of an application or library responsible for converting text or a higher-level representation of a SimplePixelFont into a stream of bytes.

Deserializer refers to the functionality in an application or library that converts a stream of bytes into a higher-level representation or language structure.

Push, in the context of byte streams, refers to adding bytes to the end of a byte stream.

Byte stream refers to a linear allocation of bytes.