Anything portable Big-endian and recent? I do have a couple of PowerBooks, but G4s are pretty slow.
Bi-endian which could be switched to Big-endian mode will do, of course.
Bi-endian which could be switched to Big-endian mode will do, of course.
Not that I'm aware of.Anything portable Big-endian and recent?
You have your choice between, X86 (little endian) or ARM (little endian)
Why do you need big-endianness?
You may be able to run an ARM device in ARM-be8 mode.
For most things, little-endian just has some efficiency wins that can't quite be ignored. Frankly a mistake that the web uses big-endian
I think most ARM chips support AArch64_BE8; But some will require to only run in BE mode if they do, can't run userspace BE and kernel LE or whatnot. It's true Apple's chips don't support BE mode. But I think most others do. Like Raspberry Pi's chips.From a practical point of view, for testing (without a need for a VM). From a personal preferences point of view, BE is the right one
This is what I thought about, and at least NetBSD has an ARM BE target, however I am also unaware of actual devices on ARM which can be used in BE mode. Apple Silicon cannot, from look of things.
IMO it was a mistake to fall into copying x86 here, but this is not a point of my post. (And yeah, with modern hardware differences won’t be practically noticeable anyway.)
As for MIPS aren't they also bi-endian these days?