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Today the main architectures use little endianess. Is there a clear advantage to its use? Should I worry when programming? In what situation?
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According to a response in the SE. little endian is more advantageous because values of various sizes can be interpreted with a valid address without any extra operation. There are those who contest this.
While it may be unintuitive for a human to have the most significant coming later, for the CPU it turns out well.
Most of the time you don’t have to worry about it. If you’re manipulating bits of data then you need to worry.
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