Re: [Interest] Interest Digest, Vol 79, Issue 21

2018-05-08 Thread Thiago Macieira
On terça-feira, 8 de maio de 2018 03:58:43 PDT Roland Hughes wrote: > > And regardless of all else you've (incorrectly) claimed, Qt runs mostly on > > little-endian machines anyway. Actually, the proportion of big endians for > > Qt as a whole is higher than on "real computers" in your analysis, >

Re: [Interest] Interest Digest, Vol 79, Issue 21

2018-05-08 Thread Roland Hughes
On 05/07/2018 11:39 PM, Thiago Macieira wrote: On s?bado, 5 de maio de 2018 07:58:45 PDT Roland Hughes wrote: While all of this is an entertaining conversation, it doesn't change the fact that big-endian ___must___ remain the default binary format for the class in question. That class was init

Re: [Interest] Interest Digest, Vol 79, Issue 21

2018-05-06 Thread Thiago Macieira
On sábado, 5 de maio de 2018 07:58:45 PDT Roland Hughes wrote: > While all of this is an entertaining conversation, it doesn't change the > fact that big-endian ___must___ remain the default binary format for the > class in question. That class was initially created for the sole purpose > of commun

Re: [Interest] Interest Digest, Vol 79, Issue 21

2018-05-06 Thread Thiago Macieira
On sábado, 5 de maio de 2018 07:58:45 PDT Roland Hughes wrote: > Data centers have been moving to ARM (the new absolute bottom) and > Z-machines for quite some time now. And yet they represent less than 0.1% of the market share. > The x86 has both heat and power problems which cannot be overcome.

Re: [Interest] Interest Digest, Vol 79, Issue 21

2018-05-05 Thread Roland Hughes
On 05/01/2018 06:06 PM, interest-requ...@qt-project.org wrote: On Tuesday, 1 May 2018 07:38:52 PDT Roland Hughes wrote: For decades the x86 defined the absolute bottom of the IT universe. When you didn't care about it you put it on x86. You do realise that 99% of the Cloud today is x86, right?

Re: [Interest] Interest Digest, Vol 79, Issue 21

2018-05-01 Thread Thiago Macieira
On Tuesday, 1 May 2018 07:38:52 PDT Roland Hughes wrote: > For decades the x86 defined the absolute bottom of the IT universe. When > you didn't care about it you put it on x86. You do realise that 99% of the Cloud today is x86, right? Of the rest of the 1%, I'm going to guess it's 50-50 between

Re: [Interest] Interest Digest, Vol 79, Issue 21

2018-05-01 Thread Roland Hughes
stems feeding high end systems operating in big-endian. *Sent:* Monday, April 30, 2018 at 6:01 PM *From:* "Roland Hughes" *To:* interest@qt-project.org *Subject:* Re: [Interest] Interest Digest, Vol 79, Issue 21 On 04/30/2018 10:57 AM, Thiago Macieira wrote: At this point, I'

Re: [Interest] Interest Digest, Vol 79, Issue 21

2018-05-01 Thread Jason H
work byte order (that is, most significant byte first, also known as "big-endian")."   Sent: Monday, April 30, 2018 at 6:01 PM From: "Roland Hughes" To: interest@qt-project.org Subject: Re: [Interest] Interest Digest, Vol 79, Issue 21     On 04/30/2018 10:57 AM, Thiago

Re: [Interest] Interest Digest, Vol 79, Issue 21

2018-04-30 Thread Roland Hughes
On 04/30/2018 10:57 AM, Thiago Macieira wrote: At this point, I'm thinking long-term we should think of whether we should deprecate QDataStream or whether the discussion we had on basing it on CBOR makes more sense. Whatever replaces/continues QDataStream must continue big-endian. If you want

Re: [Interest] Interest Digest, Vol 79, Issue 21

2018-04-30 Thread Roland Hughes
On 04/30/2018 10:57 AM, Mike Chinander wrote: Has the Superconducting Super Collider been revived? Not for general academic purposes. There has been no news about the site since a chemical company which does a lot of research purchased it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superconducting_Super_

Re: [Interest] Interest Digest, Vol 79, Issue 21

2018-04-30 Thread Roland Hughes
On Thursday, 26 April 2018 01:27:59 PDT Jason H wrote: Nah. Big endian is the way to go. Just because one company made little endian prevelant isn't good enough. Network byte order is big endian, and when looking at hex dumps, the bytes appear in the order that you expect to see them... Which