On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 6:52 PM, John Tamplin <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 7:30 PM, Glenn Maynard <[email protected]> wrote: > >> And for all realistic purposes, the world has standardized on >> little-endian. > > > Other than network protocols, which are all big-endian. > I'm talking about the endianness of systems, not of file or network formats. (Nobody should be designing new binary networking protocols in big-endian, either, as the only difference is extra byte swaps, but anyway...) > The result was increased polymorphism at call sites, which defeated the Java VM's > optimizing compiler and led to 10x slowdowns in many common > situations. FWIW, I think this has no bearing at all on JS. -- Glenn Maynard
