TFA's claims about advantages are nonsense. E.g., for "detecting odd/even" it gives the advantage to little-endian but without considering at all how that migh

TFA's claims about advantages are nonsense. E.g., for "detecting odd/even" it gives the advantage to little-endian but without considering at all how that might be implemented in hardware, or even without explaining at all why there's an advantage to be had. Or when talking about bignums: > Although this scheme can be realized with either byte order, there is an extra advantage to little endian byte ordering: If the CPU is little endian, you wouldn’t even need to care about the element size in the array because the bytes would naturally arrange themselves smoothly in little endian order across the entire array. But the same is true for big-endian! The array indices will run the opposite way, but so what? This seems aimed at forcing the conclusion that little-endian is better. There's no real advantage to one or the other. The world just has both, and we have to deal with it.