4 Jun
2010
4 Jun
'10
5:05 p.m.
Dave Handley wrote:
You definitely don't want a copy in this case since your file could easily be very big. Think of the case where your file is huge (say 10Gb), you really don't want to perform a copy and swap since that puts your memory need at 20Gb instead of 10Gb.
If you're only going to access each element of the file, then converting endian on access should be faster than swapping in place and then processing, without needing double the memory. Could you please give a specific example (preferably with code) that I could play with? terry