On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 4:19 AM, Richard Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It would be nice to have bin-prot working on all architectures ...
The biggest obstacle to this is that the current implementation assumes little endian machines. Both 64bit and 32bit are fully supported on these platforms. It would certainly be possible to support other architectures, but good portability and performance are not easily combined here. If performance does not matter, it would be easiest to just convert all data to the protocol already used by little endian machines. This would noticably slow down communication with/among machines that are not little endians. Since the vast majority of computers are little endians, this won't matter for most people. OCaml takes a similar approach. Note that communication _among_ machines with different endianness, assuming that they all have the same byte layout, should work, too, with the current binary protocol. At least if you do not mix 32/64bit machines there... Regards, Markus -- Markus Mottl http://www.ocaml.info [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Caml-list mailing list. Subscription management: http://yquem.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/caml-list Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs
