Warp wrote:
> The source code has to
> know the endianess of the target system in order to be able to write
> bytes in the proper order.

 >   Which would be slower than writing the bytes in the proper order in
 > the first place...

I'm not sure how these two jibe. Either you're processing the muti-byte 
objects in native order and writing them in a different order, or you're 
writing them without processing them. In either of those cases, I don't 
see compiler-generated code being slower than programmer-generated code.

The only way I can see it being slower is there's actually two different 
sets of code, based on what order things are in, such that (for example) 
one branch adds two numbers using "+" and the other does some magic to 
add 0xA000 and 0xA000 to get 0x4001 automatically without actually 
treating them as binary integers. Is that what you're referring to?

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