[Interest] Interest Digest, Vol 79, Issue 21

[Thiago Macieira]

On Tuesday, 1 May 2018 07:38:52 PDT Roland Hughes wrote:
> For decades the x86 defined the absolute bottom of the IT universe. When
> you didn't care about it you put it on x86.

You do realise that 99% of the Cloud today is x86, right? Of the rest of the 
1%, I'm going to guess it's 50-50 between ARM and IBM POWER, with only the 
latter usually running in big-endian mode. So right about 99.5% of the cloud 
and Internet datacentres are little-endian.

Face it, little-endian has won for endpoints (I'm not making a claim for 
network elements, but even then you should consider Software-Defined 
Networking, which runs a lot of x86 too). More importantly, for computers 
where Qt runs, it's even more than 99.5% running little-endian.

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Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
  Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center