From: anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at   
      
   scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) writes:   
   >The only benefit in modern days for big-endian is that network   
   >protocols are in big-endian form.  Not a big issue with modern   
   >LE CPUs, where byteswap is a single cycle instruction.   
      
   Clever architects put the byte swap it in the load and store   
   instructions, where the byte-swapping is just an addition to the   
   handling of misaligned loads and stores, which itself is an addition   
   to the handling of smaller-than-transfer-width accesses.  PowerPC has   
   such instructions.   
      
   - anton   
   --   
   'Anyone trying for "industrial quality" ISA should avoid undefined behavior.'   
     Mitch Alsup,    
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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