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> RcouF1uZ4gsC 26 minutes ago [–] The long term good news is that the endian wars are drawing to a close. Little Endian won. I believe all the most recent CP
by cbmuser 6y ago
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RcouF1uZ4gsC 26 minutes ago [–]
The long term good news is that the endian wars are drawing to a close. Little Endian won. I believe all the most recent CPU's support little endian at least as an option.
From what I know from talking to IBM engineers, there are no plans to switch AIX on POWER or Linux on s390x to little-endian.
And both are important platforms in the enterprise world.
- viraptor 6y agoBased on the number of units of those machines running in production, we can pretty safely treat them as exceptions these days. And people running them can afford to deal with changes needed for big endian conversion.
- cbmuser 6y agoBasically everything that is banks, governments, insurance companies used these machines. They’re not going anywhere.
- viraptor 6y agoThey're outnumbered by consumer level little endian devices by 6 orders of magnitude? More? Unless you know you're targeting those industries, you can likely ignore big endian. If they really want your code, you could always charge extra for big endian support too :-P I know they're not going anywhere, but they're also largely irrelevant to majority of us.