How to efficiently read bits out of bytes?

Question

I\'m working on a project that includes WebSockets, and data between the server (Node.js) and the client (Chrome) is sent using a custom (very simple) format for data exchan

Answer 1

if endian-ness is taken care, you can access it as an int or a long int array. There is another possibily of not using bit 3 and bit 7