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- From: ken@sugra.uucp (Kenneth Ng)
- Newsgroups: comp.arch
- Subject: Re: Swap byte instruction - how high is the win?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.015029.1528@sugra.uucp>
- Date: 12 Jan 93 01:50:29 GMT
- References: <1993Jan7.074052.19620@qb.rhein-main.de: <PRENER.93Jan7233525@prener.watson.ibm.com>
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- In article <PRENER.93Jan7233525@prener.watson.ibm.com: prener@watson.ibm.com (Dan Prener) writes:
- :The win is approximately zero for general code. But it is significant
- :for emulating a processor with the opposite byte order.
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- And if you are using something like TCP/IP, you are emulating a network
- processor (ie: network byte ordering).
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