Re: bswap is slow on SPARC

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

On Tue, 25 Nov 2025 00:19:29 -0500
Dennis Clarke <dclarke%blastwave.org@localhost> wrote:

> However truth be told it is just plain convenient to store data in the
> little endian format when dealing with a whack of machines. Most of them
> are going to be little endian these days in this millenium :)

I'm not sure about this, because you cannot simply disregard big-endian
architectures, so for any well-designed code, portability is important
and it still must deal with different byte orders.