Re: [boost] [boost::endian] Request for comments/interest

Subject: Re: [boost] [boost::endian] Request for comments/interest
From: Scott McMurray (me22.ca+boost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-05-28 13:52:17

On 28 May 2010 13:44, Cliff Green <cliffg_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
> Studies have been performed comparing "receiver makes right" designs (where
> swapping is only performed by the receiver, if needed) with others. The
> costs of swapping on modern processors is pretty minimal compared with the
> design overhead and complexity, so "receiver makes right" many times is not
> justified.
>

I understood it more as "we use little-endian for our network format,
since most of our machines are little-endian, but still want to allow
things to work on the couple of big-endian machines", not as "receiver
makes right".