Date: Thu, 5 Mar 1998 19:33:56 +0100 From: "Christian Groessler"<cpg@aladdin.de> To: nate@mt.sri.com Cc: fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr: bi-endian ffs available] Message-ID: <412565BE.0065BED5.00@saturn.fast-ag.de>
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On 3/5/98 7:06:16 PM Nate Williams wrote: > >[ FS for big/little endian switch ] > >> > Not if performance matters to you, which it does to me. >> >> I seem to remember about .5 percent performance loss being mentioned in >> later messages. > >I have a *REALLY* hard time believing that number, because for every read/write you potentially do byte-swapping. Earlier attempts at such a >thing at I believe Univ. of Utah were on the order of 10-15% if I >remember right. (Which I might not be.) This 10-15% are the case when swapping occurs, I think? It's plain stupid to use the wrong byte order for your host harddisk: then you deserve that performance loss :-) And for removable media, interoperability matters more than speed. imo. regards, chris To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message
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