1. A system comprising: at least one processor of a computing device; a memory of the computing device; and an encoder loaded into the memory causing the at least one processor to: generate a data stream in compact type layout (CTL) format for a data type using one-byte operation codes, the data stream in CTL format derived from common intermediate language (CIL) metadata; and reference types, methods, and fields of the data type by a CIL metadata token.