SPARKFUN external EEPROM library - issue with arrays

Easy enough (and educational) to understand float encodings: https://float.exposed/0x40066666

If you right-click and Go to Definition on that get call, is it meaningfully different than what I have handy for R4:

    template< typename T > T &get( int idx, T &t ){
        EEPtr e = idx;
        uint8_t *ptr = (uint8_t*) &t;
        for( int count = sizeof(T) ; count ; --count, ++e )  *ptr++ = *e;
        return t;
    }

which reads one byte at a time anyway?