On 28/01/07, Donald Bruce Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I've added raw primitives for:
{put,get}Wordhost
{put,get}Word16host
{put,get}Word32host
{put,get}Word64host
which do unaligned, host-sized, host-endian packing of data.
Writing is some 15% faster for Words, a bit less for reading (which is a
bit unoptimised at the moment), and a bit less for other types. Needless
to say, data serialised this way is only portable to the same
architecture.
If the data header stores the alignment/size/endianness, then there's
no reason for the data to be unportable. The normal get* instances
(not get*host) could suffice for reading.
Conrad.
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