26 Jan
2010
26 Jan
'10
10:11 a.m.
On Jan 26, 2010, at 10:15 AM, Pontus Pihlgren wrote:
There was an internal one at a company I worked for many years
ago. The root of the argument was network byte order (big endian)
and the need for byte-swapping multibyte values. This was for a
device (actually a Sun SPARCstation-5) that moved, demultiplexed, and
translated data from a satellite downlink, a full transponder, at
45Mbps in real-time. Adding byte-swapping code right in the latency-
sensitive part of the code was something we were trying hard to avoid.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL
QBus vs Unibus
VT100 vs 3270
OS/370 vs VAX/VMS
SPARC vs MIPS (vs Alpha)
:)
Was there ever a big endian vx little endian war?