Spikes on the encoding/binary and encoding/hex packages

binary_spike.go

package main

import "fmt"
import "encoding/binary"
import "encoding/hex"

func main() {
	num := uint64(120123)
	size := binary.Size(num)
	fmt.Printf("size: %v\n", size)
    
	packet := make([]byte, size)
	binary.BigEndian.PutUint64(packet, num)
	fmt.Printf("packet: %v\n", packet)
	fmt.Printf("hex: %v\n", hex.EncodeToString(packet))
	
	decoded := binary.BigEndian.Uint64(packet)
	fmt.Printf("decoded: %v\n", decoded)
}