#bigendian — Public Fediverse posts
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Does anyone know if little-endian has any technical advantages? Big-endian machines are all but extinct these days (outside of IBM mainframes).
Or is is just a case of having to pick one and stick with it, like how all life on Earth is made out of L-chiral amino acids and D-chiral carbohydrates?
#bigendian #endianness #chirality #cpu #cpudesign