On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 11:25 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > From: Jim Kuzdrall <[email protected]> > > Organization: Intrel > > Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 08:20:12 -0500 > > > On Thursday 08 January 2009 00:06, Ben Scott wrote: > > > On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 11:31 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > So what's the recommended way to do this? > > > > > > I dunno that there really is any really good way. > > > > There is a solution to the problem, I believe, if the structs are > > data structures that you wish to be common to several environments and > > processors. > > Sure there is. Just write every program in Java. ;^)
Or perl or python or shell.... Jon Bentley's ACM column "Programming Pearls" (collected in a few books) talks about the value of shell scripts & ASCII data files for portability. He went from a multi user VAX to a Sun Sparc workstation to an Alpha and saw his programs speed up considerably. Because he didn't use binary files for data, he didn't have to worry about endiness or 16 vs 32 bits. Ok, this is old stuff. We've gone from 16 -> 32 -> 64 bits with various endieness in computer evolution. The next evolution will be linear to parallel (multi core/thread/etc) and will be much harder.
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