Little endian is advantageous for byte-by-byte addition and subtraction.
On the other hand, the Huffman coder in my TB file compressor is better suited for big endian (unless I write and read data from the end of the 64-byte block to the beginning, which would probably slow down a bit since the cache line will not be retrieved from memory in the same order).
I'm not very happy with the do {} while() statement in C
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Re: I'm not very happy with the do {} while() statement in C
Emacs, Linux, KDE, MSX (I know it wasn't an option), Atari, Mac.syzygy wrote: Other Holy Wars worth fighting for are Vi vs Emacs, Linux vs Windows, Gnome vs KDE, C64 vs Spectrum, C64 vs Atari, Amiga vs Mac.
Oh, and little endian (store numbers in base 256, like this: a[0] + a[1]*256^1 + a[2] * 256^2 + ...).