Date: Thu, 5 Mar 1998 11:06:16 -0700 From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> To: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no> Cc: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>, fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr: bi-endian ffs available] Message-ID: <199803051806.LAA19568@mt.sri.com> In-Reply-To: <19980305190118.29623@follo.net> References: <19980305180512.15607@follo.net> <199803051758.KAA19486@mt.sri.com> <19980305190118.29623@follo.net>
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[ 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.) Also, it requires you to redo all your FS's in order to take advantage of it, which therefore makes it of little use to 99% of the poeple, and it could potentially 'kill' someone if they add it to their kernel. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message
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