Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 8 Mar 1999 23:18:54 -0700 (MST) | From | Cort Dougan <> | Subject | Re: Linux/IA-64 byte order |
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For reference, the choice isn't arbitrary on all chips. The PPC takes a minor performance hit when operating in LE mode and does some inconvenient things when in LE mode (resulting in more work needing to be done in software).
It's not clear yet that the ia64 is a sane architecture.
}So, anyways, with a sane cpu it's a non-issue.
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