On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 08:03:38PM +0000, Phillip Lougher wrote:
> Pavel Machek wrote:
> >
> >Al is right. Unconditional swap is probably faster than
> >branch. Avoiding swaps is nice, but avoiding branches is probably more
> >important.
>
> Quite possible.
>
> >
> >Can you try to benchmark it? I believe it is going to be lost in
> >noise, slow cpus or not.
>
> Good idea, I'll try to benchmark it (on a slow CPU if I can find one :-)
> ). It will probably make no difference.
>
> I don't want the lack of a fixed endianness on disk to become a problem.
> I personally don't think the use of, or lack of a fixed endianness to
> be that important, but I'd prefer not to change the current situation
> and adopt a fixed format. I use big endian systems almost exclusively,
> and I don't like the way fixed formats always tend to be little-endian.
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...
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