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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: Phillip Lougher <phillip@lougher.demon.co.uk>
Cc: Phillip Lougher <phillip@lougher.org.uk>,
	Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>,
	"unlisted-recipients: no To-header on input <;,
	Jeff Garzik"  <jeff@garzik.org>,
	J?rn Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [ANN] Squashfs 3.0 released
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 21:15:41 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060321201541.GF3929@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44205C1A.4040408@lougher.demon.co.uk>

Hi!

> >Can you try to benchmark it? I believe it is going to be lost in
> >noise, slow cpus or not.
> 
> Good idea, I'll try to benchmark it (on a slow CPU if I can find one :-) 
> ).  It will probably make no difference.
> 
> I don't want the lack of a fixed endianness on disk to become a problem. 
>   I personally don't think the use of, or lack of a fixed endianness to 
> be that important, but I'd prefer not to change the current situation 
> and adopt a fixed format.  I use big endian systems almost exclusively, 
> and I don't like the way fixed formats always tend to be little-endian.

Fix it to big-endian, then. Network protocols are big-endian, anyway,
and PCs tend to be so fast that byteswap will be lost in cache misses,
anyway.

[Funny, it looks like all the big-endian machines are slow :-)))]

								Pavel
-- 
Picture of sleeping (Linux) penguin wanted...

  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-03-21 20:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-03-17  0:45 [ANN] Squashfs 3.0 released Phillip Lougher
     [not found] ` <20060317010529.GB30801@schatzie.adilger.int>
2006-03-17  1:30   ` Phillip Lougher
2006-03-17  1:51     ` Samuel Masham
2006-03-17 10:40 ` Jörn Engel
2006-03-17 11:16   ` Phillip Lougher
2006-03-17 12:43     ` Jörn Engel
2006-03-17 16:00       ` Jeff Garzik
2006-03-17 17:04         ` Phillip Lougher
2006-03-17 17:25           ` Jeff Garzik
2006-03-17 20:39             ` Willy Tarreau
2006-03-19  1:38               ` Phillip Lougher
2006-03-21 15:33                 ` Francesco Biscani
2006-03-19  1:42               ` Phillip Lougher
2006-03-19 16:32             ` Pavel Machek
2006-03-21 16:01               ` Phillip Lougher
     [not found]                 ` <20060321161452.GG27946@ftp.linux.org.uk>
2006-03-21 19:08                   ` Phillip Lougher
2006-03-21 19:11                     ` Pavel Machek
2006-03-21 20:03                       ` Phillip Lougher
2006-03-21 20:07                         ` Al Viro
2006-03-21 22:01                           ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-03-21 22:11                             ` Jeff Garzik
2006-03-21 22:59                             ` Al Viro
2006-03-21 20:15                         ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2006-03-21 20:33                           ` Al Viro
2006-03-21 21:28                         ` Andreas Dilger
2006-03-21 23:24                           ` Jörn Engel
2006-03-17 21:32           ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-03-17 15:54 ` Xavier Bestel

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