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Genuinely curious, what are any advantages of big endian other than "it's how we write numbers in base 10?"

• chx 4y ago
  Signs and strings
• patrec 4y ago
  Sorting (assuming your numbers are unsigned and same width, you can sort them as byte strings). Dispatch (if only the topmost n-bits (or bytes) are needed to make a decision, that's all you need to read).