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Ion 1.1 Binary Encoding

A binary Ion stream consists of an Ion version marker followed by a series of value literals and/or encoding expressions.

Both value literals and e-expressions begin with an opcode that indicates what the next expression represents and how the bytes that follow should be interpreted.