Re: bswap is slow on SPARC
Sad Clouds <[email protected]> Tue, 25 Nov 2025 06:09:26 +0000
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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.