Warp wrote:
>   (Sure, the code could have been written so that endianess doesn't matter,
> but then it wouldn't have been so efficient.)

And of course, in *portable* languages for doing system-level 
programming, you simply specify that particular variables have a certain 
endianness, and you let the compiler write the code to do the 
byteswapping at the places it's needed. :-)

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