Hi, While reading http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=468209 I have to agree with most of what Santiago said.
Neil Williams said: > On big endian systems, the CPU wastes time converting the endianness at > loadtime which is important for embedded devices. Do you have any figures? In my opinion, the non-native endianness costs a few CPU cycles at every non-cached gettext() invocation, but nothing at load time. The thing that costs at load time is when the locale encoding and the PO file encoding don't match: e.g. if the PO file was in ISO-8859-2 and the .mo file is used in an UTF-8 locale. > Please document this in the manpage and ask upstream if it can also be > output in the --help output. > ... > No, I don't see that this needs to be forwarded upstream, this is an > issue within Debian - primarily within the manpage as far as this bug > report is concerned. It would be wrong to document some option in Debian that is not documented upstream. The upstream maintainer can at any moment withdraw this option, change its syntax, make it dump core etc., without notice (no word about it in the NEWS file). Bruno -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
