Big and Little Endianness

Motorola processors store integers with the opposite endianness from Intel processors. So in theory if we are writing integers from memory to disc it is something we should care about if we want our files to work on one platform versus another.

In practice all our supported platforms are intel now and we don’t really have customers trying to mix our files from one platform with another. So it’s probably just wasting CPU cycles to bother with converting endianess when I think about it.