From: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
Cc: Phillip Lougher <phillip@lougher.demon.co.uk>,
Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>,
Phillip Lougher <phillip@lougher.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 22:59:21 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060321225921.GJ27946@ftp.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0603212301160.24534@yvahk01.tjqt.qr>
On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 11:01:58PM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> >
> >You mean, like IP? Or NFS? Or XFS? Or any number of other big-endian
> >data layouts? Make it fixed to big-endian - no problem with that...
> >
> And most machines are little endian. So statistically, the world swapped
> more than it would have to.
... and on most of them that costs how many cycles, again? How much do
test and branch cost?
That is not to mention boxen with instructions along the lines of
load-and-swap/swap-and-store...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-03-21 22:59 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 [this message]
2006-03-21 20:15 ` Pavel Machek
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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