Re: [boost] [Endian] Performance

Subject: Re: [boost] [Endian] Performance
From: Mathias Gaunard (mathias.gaunard_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-09-07 04:49:37

On 09/07/2011 01:54 AM, Phil Endecott wrote:

> Unfortunately not, no; in my tests the gcc built-ins were the
> worse-performing on one platform.

Then it's a bug that should be fixed in the compiler.
(But then it could also be that your benchmark is imperfect)

>> I don't think this is really important though.
>
> You mean the performance of these endian operations in general is not
> important?

Not that much no. It's important that it's reasonably fast, but it 
needn't be performance critical.