On Tue, Jan 20, 2009, Mike Hommey wrote: > How much performance loss are we looking at ? If it's a few %, is it > that important? There are already various things that are little-endian > even on big-endian architectures, beginning with the ext3 filesystem.
I'd love to hear about the speed benefits; perhaps there's a memory benefit if the file can be mmap-ed in one case and not the other. I don't expect it will be significant though. > IMHO, the real issue is that depending on the arch which the arch:all > package is built on, the resulting file's endianness will change. > Maybe msgfmt should be patched to always generate the same endianness > by default. Agreed. -- Loïc Minier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
