Little endian is easier to deal with at the machine level as you don't need to adjust pointer offsets when referencing a smaller sized variable. A pointer to an

Little endian is easier to deal with at the machine level as you don't need to adjust pointer offsets when referencing a smaller sized variable. A pointer to an 8, 16, 32, 64, 128 bit quantity will be the same. Big endian you will need to adjust the pointer up/down accordingly.