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Hi Shail,
Technically speaking, there is no  advantage of Big-Endianness over
Little-Endianness. Intel processors are predominantly Little-Endian,
while Motorola processors are Big-Endian. Choosing one over the other
depends primarily on the overall system. If you are designing a
subsystem which will be connected to an Intel platform, it makes sense
to choose  Little-Endianness. It is important to note that although
many bridges (e.g., PCI-to-local bus) have on the fly byte-swapping,
this only maintains address invariance. If a program running on one
32-bit platform tries to access 32-bit data produced by another
program running on  another 32-bit platform with different endianness,
you still have to perform explicit conversion. Address invariance
means that, when accessing an aggregate data structure (e.g., record),
the relative address of the fields are maintained. If latency isn't a
problem, it doesn't matter which ever Endianness you choose.

To reply to your second point, not all RISC processors are Big-Endian.
The i960 family of processors are Little-Endian although some of them
have the capability of Endian conversion.

Dr Yves Tchapda
Design Engineer
Power X
England