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amelius on Jan 19, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: Is big-endian dead?

In the worst case, comparison is still like subtraction.

kazinator on Jan 20, 2018 [–]

Even if the whole datum is examined, comparison is more parallelizable; it doesn't require carry propagation.

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