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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: Endianness independance
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"Jeffrey Creem" <jeff@thecreems.com> writes:

> "Simon Wright" <simon@pushface.org> wrote in message
> news:x7vheanwb32.fsf@smaug.pushface.org...
> > amir@iae.nsk.su (Amir Yantimirov) writes:
> >
> >
> > I don't know about C#, but it's not obvious that its creators would
> > have been bothered about execution on non-Intel hardware.
> >
> > It is not at all likely that a Java int has the same representation at
> > runtime on a PC as on an iBook. It would be painfully slow on one of
> > them (probably the PC!).
> >
> 
> Incorrect. Java int is Big endian no matter which platform you are on....And
> for me at least, it remains painfully slow (though I have a much lower
> threshold of pain than most people for this sort of thing)...

Good grief.

Still, I was right about which was likely to be worst ..

I wonder what GCJ does? .. but not a lot.