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by LegionMammal978 640 days ago
The benefit is that you'd only have to do it for the parts of the data that are actively manipulated, which might be far less than the entirety of the data structure. Also, you can easily forward a copy elsewhere in the original format.

But if you know you're not going to have endianness problems, you can just skip that step entirely.