> Is it time to accept that all machines that matter are little endian. Well, no, because it's not the case. SPARC is big-endian, and a bunch of IBM processor

> Is it time to accept that all machines that matter are little endian. Well, no, because it's not the case. SPARC is big-endian, and a bunch of IBM processors. ARM processors are mostly bi-endian. > Is it time to do the same for big endian machines? No. Not just because of their prevalence, but because there isn't a compelling reason why everything should be little- endian.