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Subject: Re: [boost] [boost::endian] Request for comments/interest
From: Tomas Puverle (tomas.puverle_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-06-02 09:44:58


> You seem to be making a distinction between the communication/transfer
> layer's endianness and that of the destination.
<snip>

Glad to see you agree.

> Your code could be as efficient as using Tomas' swap(), but not
> swap_in_place(), I think. Measurements are good.

I am looking forward to seeing these.

Additionally, just pulling data through the CPU without doing anything to it
might invalidate the caches of other processors, cause memory bus bottlenecks
etc, effects that might be hard to measure.


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