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		jpgvm on Jan 2, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Writing a TrueType font renderer Along with MIPS. The significance of which is that it led to a lot of network gear using one of these 3 architectures. Now most network data planes are in ASIC and increasingly these BE ISAs are being supplanted by ARM but for a long time it held out as a bastion for PPC in particular.

swiftcoder on Jan 2, 2024 [–]

ARM still has big-endian mode for this niche. Modern ARM cores even have dynamically switchable endian for data

codyd51 on Jan 2, 2024 | [–]

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