On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 04:32:12PM +0200, Olaf Hering wrote: > On Wed, Apr 22, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > Conditional byte order is worse than silly - it's terminally stupid. > > > In other words, think networking, which statically just decided to use > > big-endian. Sure, that was the wrong choice in the end, but even > > Why was that wrong? Any pointers to further details? >
http://www.barrgroup.com/Embedded-Systems/How-To/Big-Endian-Little-Endian "Serious run-time performance penalties occur when using TCP/IP on a little endian processor." The Intel x86 and x86-64 series of processors use the little-endian format I think for this reason.. Michele -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
