From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@oss.sgi.com>
To: Jun Sun <jsun@mvista.com>
Cc: nick@snowman.net, Matthew Dharm <mdharm@momenco.com>,
Linux-MIPS <linux-mips@oss.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: Endianness...
Date: Fri, 4 May 2001 09:46:34 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010504094634.B1257@bacchus.dhis.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3AF0724B.D74D9AF9@mvista.com>; from jsun@mvista.com on Wed, May 02, 2001 at 01:47:07PM -0700
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 01:47:07PM -0700, Jun Sun wrote:
> BE is better known perhaps because all SGI workstations are BE. Generally I
> found networking systems tend to use BE while consumer electronic devices tend
> to use LE (which means there are probably more MIPS CPUs running in LE.)
>
> So far I have not found much difference in terms of endianess, although
> occassionaly you have to IO swap in drivers for BE machine.
The difference is mostly of religious nature even though I've been told
that various embedded apps can show noticable performance difference due
to byteswapping. In general I prefer big endian because it tends to
trigger certain bugs in software more than little endian, such as accessing
a memory object with different sizes.
Ralf
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-05-04 12:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-05-02 20:01 Endianness Matthew Dharm
2001-05-02 20:03 ` Endianness nick
2001-05-02 20:47 ` Endianness Jun Sun
2001-05-04 12:46 ` Ralf Baechle [this message]
2001-05-02 20:21 ` Endianness Kevin D. Kissell
2001-05-02 20:52 ` Endianness Pete Popov
2001-05-03 6:47 ` Endianness Houten K.H.C. van (Karel)
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