Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 24 Apr 2015 16:41:04 +0200 (CEST) | From | Jiri Kosina <> | Subject | Re: Issues with capability bits and meta-data in kdbus |
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On Fri, 24 Apr 2015, Olaf Hering wrote:
> > Conditional byte order is worse than silly - it's terminally stupid. > > > In other words, think networking, which statically just decided to use > > big-endian. Sure, that was the wrong choice in the end, but even > > Why was that wrong? Any pointers to further details?
Becase the architecture that is running on overwhelming majority of today's world computers is little-endian, and therefore has to convert all the time.
-- Jiri Kosina SUSE Labs
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