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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
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Subject: Re: Using representation clauses in networking software
Date: Sat, 04 Sep 2010 22:46:54 +0200
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* Maciej Sobczak:

> On 15 Sie, 21:15, Simon Wright <si...@pushface.org> wrote:
>
>> Stick to network-byte-order on the wire,
>
> Just when ~99% of hardware in use is little-endian?
> Sounds like a lost optimization opportunity with absolutely no overall
> gain.

On most CPUs, dealing with misaligned loads when converting from a
byte stream is more expensive than the endianness conversion.