28 May
2010
28 May
'10
5:52 p.m.
On 28 May 2010 13:44, Cliff Green <cliffg@codewrangler.net> wrote:
Studies have been performed comparing "receiver makes right" designs (where swapping is only performed by the receiver, if needed) with others. The costs of swapping on modern processors is pretty minimal compared with the design overhead and complexity, so "receiver makes right" many times is not justified.
I understood it more as "we use little-endian for our network format, since most of our machines are little-endian, but still want to allow things to work on the couple of big-endian machines", not as "receiver makes right".