Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 24 Apr 2015 16:39:09 +0200 | From | Michele Curti <> | Subject | Re: Issues with capability bits and meta-data in kdbus |
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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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