On Fri, 24 Apr 2015, Olaf Hering 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?
Becase the architecture that is running on overwhelming majority of today's world computers is little-endian, and therefore has to convert all the time. -- Jiri Kosina SUSE Labs -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
