On Fri, Oct 02, 2020 at 02:40:00PM +0200, Christophe Leroy wrote: > > However I guess the initial intention was to avoid conversion as much as > possible. Most tests and bit wise operations can be done regardless of the > endianess, that's the reason why the endianness conversion was applied to > constants, in order to apply them at build time and avoid converting vars > back and forth during runtime. > > I have not looked at your patch in details but I have the feeling you are > defeating this initial purpose.
I don't think that's a valid optimisation unless it's backed up with real numbers. Cheers, -- Email: Herbert Xu <herb...@gondor.apana.org.au> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt
