Re: bswap is slow on SPARC

Sad Clouds <[email protected]> Mon, 24 Nov 2025 19:55:37 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.sparc,gmane.os.netbsd.ports.sparc64
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, 24 Nov 2025 13:30:50 +0000
nia <[email protected]> wrote:

> When encryption algorithms expect to be able to encode little-endian
> integers in a tight loop, that adds up to being *slow*. Especially
> when NetBSD encrypts swap by default now.

I wonder, why store data in a little-endian byte order on a big-endian
architecture? Is it that common to access the same swap partition
across multiple architectures?