Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Linux/IA-64 byte order | From | Jes Sorensen <> | Date | 09 Mar 1999 10:35:23 +0100 |
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>>>>> "Cort" == Cort Dougan <cort@persephone.cs.nmt.edu> writes:
Cort> For reference, the choice isn't arbitrary on all chips. The PPC Cort> takes a minor performance hit when operating in LE mode and does Cort> some inconvenient things when in LE mode (resulting in more work Cort> needing to be done in software).
Cort> It's not clear yet that the ia64 is a sane architecture.
This is exactly the sort of things I would look at before deciding on a byte order for Linux/IA64 - however since I don't know the technical details I can't say which one is to be preferred to the other.
Jes
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