> No idea if Windows has this ability. NTFS does support compression but I found Windows Server's block deduplication feature much more useful.
> I am also unfamiliar with any port of Windows to a big endian CPU, but I > really don't follow it much. Araq might know. Well Windows runs on ARM and ARM can be configured to use big endian. As far as I know, I never used it. > IBM POWER cpus have been the last CPUs doing it that way for a long time, > AFAIK. Apple's M1 seems ARM-related which probably means little endian, but I > don't know for sure. The M1 is little endian. (At least in the default setting.) > It's become so rare that I don't even know if anyone's run the Nim test suite > on a big endian CPU at all in the past N years. Araq might know that, too. Depends on your definition of N, I once fixed compiler bugs for PowerPC which is big endian.
