Simon F Tea maker Moderator Veteran Supporter Jun 26, 2003 #21 arjan de lumens said: Aside from just the esthetic issues: coding multiprecision math libraries tends to be qute a bit nicer/easier with little-endian that with big-endian, whereas sorting strings may benefit from big-endian arithmetic. Click to expand... As I shut down the computer last night I realised I should have done a multi-word precision integer adder as my example.
arjan de lumens said: Aside from just the esthetic issues: coding multiprecision math libraries tends to be qute a bit nicer/easier with little-endian that with big-endian, whereas sorting strings may benefit from big-endian arithmetic. Click to expand... As I shut down the computer last night I realised I should have done a multi-word precision integer adder as my example.
