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I also really don't understand why people thought it was such a hard concept as to largely force Linux (PPC, arm, mips) toward little. Working with arbitrary-p
by userbinator 2y ago
I also really don't understand why people thought it was such a hard concept as to largely force Linux (PPC, arm, mips) toward little.
Working with arbitrary-precision arithmetic makes you realise how logical little-endian is (and how weird they appear on a big-endian machine.)
- tyingq 2y agoI think it's negligible, but you don't have to byte swap for network order with big endian.
- yencabulator 2y agoMeanwhile, bigendian numbers sort correctly with a byte-wise sort, great for on-disk data structures.