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Re:Ask HN: Is big-endian dead? by astrodust on Friday January 19, 2018 @04:03PM (#16189804)
It's my understanding that this works with the complete address, not just the first byte, where it begins processing before the whole frame is received.

On 100Gbit you're talking 0.01ns per bit, so 0.32ns for a full IPv4 address. This compared to, potentially, 15.24ns for a complete IPv4 frame.

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Re:Ask HN: Is big-endian dead? by kazinator on Friday January 19, 2018 @04:06PM (#16189841)
Nevertheless; header before payload is a kind of "higher level big endian".
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Re:Ask HN: Is big-endian dead? by IshKebab on Friday January 19, 2018 @04:11PM (#16189887)
Err, no.
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