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#114 What is an Instruction Set Architecture?

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The Endianness of Instruction Set Architectures

As a programmer today, you're not writing an assembly language. For the most part, you don't need to think about it at all. But there is one aspect of instructions that architecture does become relevant in mid-level languages like C. And that has to do with whether the architecture sees the first byte out of a multi-byte number as the beginning of the number or the end of the number.

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