On Wed, 11 Jul 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
...
- It's easier that all values are kept to a the same endianess;
reduces
confusion.
- Nowadays MOST (but obviously not all) servers are running little
endian. So this saves byte swapping for most people's cases and
thus a
few cycles are spared on each request -- isn't that the whole
point? ;)
...
As a vote in the opposite direction, I happen to run memcached on PPC
hardware, whereas my clients are both PPC and intel. My mileage does
indeed vary from yours, and would vote +1 for the correctness of
network byte ordering.
----
James Robinson
Socialserve.com
