Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 21 Mar 2006 21:15:41 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: [ANN] Squashfs 3.0 released |
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Hi!
> >Can you try to benchmark it? I believe it is going to be lost in > >noise, slow cpus or not. > > Good idea, I'll try to benchmark it (on a slow CPU if I can find one :-) > ). It will probably make no difference. > > I don't want the lack of a fixed endianness on disk to become a problem. > I personally don't think the use of, or lack of a fixed endianness to > be that important, but I'd prefer not to change the current situation > and adopt a fixed format. I use big endian systems almost exclusively, > and I don't like the way fixed formats always tend to be little-endian.
Fix it to big-endian, then. Network protocols are big-endian, anyway, and PCs tend to be so fast that byteswap will be lost in cache misses, anyway.
[Funny, it looks like all the big-endian machines are slow :-)))]
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