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Endian wars and anti-portability: this again?


Note: This is another really technical post. Those who do not know the difference between a PowerPC and an ARM can probably skip this one – we’ll be back to general audience posts tomorrow! One of my friends made the mistake this evening of linking me to a thread about endianness on that bastion of free expression, Hacker News.

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