On Thursday, March 23, 2023, Linux User #330250 <linuxuser330...@gmx.net> wrote:
> I also see BE disappearing from lots and lots of software. My assumption > is that it simply isn't viable anymore, as most users and developers > have moved on. except in Japan, India, China, and anywhere else in the world where the main CPU directly memory-map accesses the Peripheral Bus (Industrial Control), and router hardware used literally everywhere in the entire world because IP Protocol network-order *IS* big-endian. you have fallen as have the very software communities you quote into the trap of assuming "desktop [and HPC]" === "ALL software worldwide". because java. because javascript. if anyone tried proposing on openwrt mailing lists that they should convert to using javascript for all source code there would be nobody to reply because they would all be in shock and disbelief. [openwrt runs on systems with clock rates between 60 mhz and 600 mhz approx. JS would punish that with a 10x slowdown] i am exaggerating to get the point across but you get the general gist i am sure, that there exists a real serious problem inherent in the "Bazaar" model that we have all *assumed* to be inviolate and 100% successful in all circumstances. unfortunately it is not, and the loss of BE support because "why would desktop need it??" illustrates that perfectly. talk to anyone doing network-centric distros and they will not be happy, explaining in great detail how performance and critical latency are really severely impacted on LE-centric hardware. there are even companies doing custom FPGA Products to bi-directionally *REORDER* IP protocol Packets "because bloody Intel bloody LE"! l. -- --- crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68
