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Is this server big or little endian
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endianness.js
var littleEndian = (function() {
var buffer = new ArrayBuffer(2);
new DataView(buffer).setInt16(0, 256, true /* littleEndian */);
// Int16Array uses the platform's endianness.
return new Int16Array(buffer)[0] === 256;
})();
console.log(littleEndian ? 'little' : 'big');
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