Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> Warp wrote:
> >   (Sure, the code could have been written so that endianess doesn't matter,
> > but then it wouldn't have been so efficient.)

> And of course, in *portable* languages for doing system-level 
> programming, you simply specify that particular variables have a certain 
> endianness, and you let the compiler write the code to do the 
> byteswapping at the places it's needed. :-)

  Which would be slower than writing the bytes in the proper order in
the first place...

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                                                          - Warp

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