Re:The Byte Order Fiasco
by bonzini on Saturday May 08, 2021 @08:30AM
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That's the only thing that BE has over LE.
But for example bitmaps in BE are a huge source of bugs, as readers and writers need to agree on the size to use for memory operations.
"SIMD in a word" (e.g. doing strlen or strcmp with 32- or 64-bit memory accesses) might have mostly fallen out of fashion these days, but it's also more efficient in LE.
But for example bitmaps in BE are a huge source of bugs, as readers and writers need to agree on the size to use for memory operations.
"SIMD in a word" (e.g. doing strlen or strcmp with 32- or 64-bit memory accesses) might have mostly fallen out of fashion these days, but it's also more efficient in LE.