Re: bswap is slow on SPARC

Sad Clouds <[email protected]> Tue, 25 Nov 2025 06:09:26 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.sparc,gmane.os.netbsd.ports.sparc64
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, 25 Nov 2025 00:19:29 -0500
Dennis Clarke <[email protected]> wrote:

> However truth be told it is just plain convenient to store data in the
> little endian format when dealing with a whack of machines. Most of them
> are going to be little endian these days in this millenium :)

I'm not sure about this, because you cannot simply disregard big-endian
architectures, so for any well-designed code, portability is important
and it still must deal with different byte orders.