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atomicity : When applied to an operation on primitive data, indicates that other threads that might access the data might see the data as it exists before the operation occurs or after the operation has completed, but may never see an intermediate value of the data.
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*big-endian* : "Multibyte data items are always stored in big-endian order, where the high bytes come first." \[[The Java Virtual Machine Specification|AA. Bibliography#JVMSpec 99]\] [Chapter 4|http://java.sun.com/docs/books/jvms/second_edition/html/ClassFile.doc.html] "The {{class}} File Format". This term refers to the tension between Lilliput and Blefuscu (regarding whether to open soft-boiled eggs from the large or the small end) in Jonathan Swift's satirical novel _Gulliver's Travels_; it was first applied to the question of byte-ordering by Danny Cohen in \[[Cohen 1981|AA. Bibliography#Cohen 81]\]. |
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