| Date | Mon, 8 Mar 1999 22:37:01 -0800 (PST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: Linux/IA-64 byte order |
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On Mon, 8 Mar 1999, Richard B. Johnson wrote: > > If so, you are now just > making a rule based upon preference. Instead, you should make a > rule based upon performance (like network communication).
There are no performance issues: - it's trivial to do the appropriate byte order changes, and does not imply any noticeable performance impact. - neither LE nor BE has any "strong" preference. BE is usual in some areas (IP stacks etc), LE is usual in others (anything that has anything to do with PC's). It evens out.
Right now LE is certainly dominant, at least in part because MS decreed it so (so even architectures that used to be BE now tend to have support for bi-endianness). I'd prefer to reinforce that rather than fight it.
Linus
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