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Little-endian has a major advantage over big-endian...on eight-bit architectures: as you expand the size of the number, you can keep using up new digits at the
by gecko 11y ago
Little-endian has a major advantage over big-endian...on eight-bit architectures: as you expand the size of the number, you can keep using up new digits at the end of the range, rather than the beginning. This means that you can more easily expand field widths.
Beyond that, it's called after two stupid factions in Gulliver's Travels for a reason...
- KMag 11y agoThough. it's sometimes convenient to have a lexographical sort result in a numeric ordering. For instance, if you're storing timestamps as multi-precision integers using a Rice-Golomb encoding that sorts the same way lexographically and numerically, decoding is faster if your CPU is big-endian.