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SubjectRe: Issues with capability bits and meta-data in kdbus
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


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