What is the advantage of little endian format:

Q: x86 Processors use the little endian format for storage/processing.
I always wonder why someone would want to store the bytes in reverse order. Does this format have any advantages over the big endian format?

A: The major advantage with a little-endian system, the address of a given value in memory, taken as a 32, 16, or 8 bit width, is the same.
You dont need to readjust the pointer and then perform the narrower fetch operation on the new value for memory access.

Sources | Date: March 2025

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