Re: bswap is slow on SPARC

[Sad Clouds <cryintothebluesky%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Mon, 24 Nov 2025 13:30:50 +0000
nia <nia%NetBSD.org@localhost> wrote:

> When encryption algorithms expect to be able to encode little-endian
> integers in a tight loop, that adds up to being *slow*. Especially
> when NetBSD encrypts swap by default now.

I wonder, why store data in a little-endian byte order on a big-endian
architecture? Is it that common to access the same swap partition
across multiple architectures?