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From: Simon Shapiro <shimon@simon-shapiro.org>
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Subject: Re: SCP/FTP Performance
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Matt Hamilton, On 24-Nov-98 you wrote:
>  On Mon, 23 Nov 1998, Simon Shapiro wrote:
>  
> > I know I am missing something here, but it appears Alpha based.
>  
>  Not that I know a huge amount about this, but could it be some
>  byte-order
>  related problem?  Something to do with switching the byte order around
>  un-necessarily, before sticking on the wire?  Or switching it wrongly
>  when
>  it gets back?

I doubt that;  First, it may add as much as 1% on an alpha.  Second, the
alpha is already in network order.

Simon


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