Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 21 Mar 2006 22:59:21 +0000 | From | Al Viro <> | Subject | Re: [ANN] Squashfs 3.0 released |
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On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 11:01:58PM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > > >You mean, like IP? Or NFS? Or XFS? Or any number of other big-endian > >data layouts? Make it fixed to big-endian - no problem with that... > > > And most machines are little endian. So statistically, the world swapped > more than it would have to.
... and on most of them that costs how many cycles, again? How much do test and branch cost?
That is not to mention boxen with instructions along the lines of load-and-swap/swap-and-store... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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