Per Hedbor wrote: >It would also break hstring reading rather badly, so you would still >need the functions to read unsigned numbers internally.
>Also, with native integers, as it turns out, it's fairly equal on >x86_64 at least, where the integer operations are inlined. >Just add another function to read signed integers. Shall we rename the read_int* to read_uint* then? >And as for byteorder, just add a switch to switch byteorder if the >number of functions needs to be kept down for some reason. Well, since IOBuffer is for efficiency and not for beauty, I guess it does not matter a lot if there are few or a lot of functions. Whatever is most efficient counts here, I'd say. -- Stephen.
