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Re: bswap is slow on SPARC




To: nia <nia%NetBSD.org@localhost>

Subject: Re: bswap is slow on SPARC

From: Sad Clouds <cryintothebluesky%gmail.com@localhost>

Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2025 19:55:37 +0000


On Mon, 24 Nov 2025 13:30:50 +0000
nia <nia%NetBSD.org@localhost> wrote:

> When encryption algorithms expect to be able to encode little-endian
> integers in a tight loop, that adds up to being *slow*. Especially
> when NetBSD encrypts swap by default now.

I wonder, why store data in a little-endian byte order on a big-endian
architecture? Is it that common to access the same swap partition
across multiple architectures?


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