[Interest] Interest Digest, Vol 79, Issue 21

[Thiago Macieira]

On terça-feira, 8 de maio de 2018 03:58:43 PDT Roland Hughes wrote:
> > And regardless of all else you've (incorrectly) claimed, Qt runs mostly on
> > little-endian machines anyway. Actually, the proportion of big endians for
> > Qt as a whole is higher than on "real computers" in your analysis,
> > because MIPS embedded systems do often run in big endian mode. So I'm
> > going to guess big endian for Qt represents about 1% of the addressable
> > base, which is more than the 0.5% of the cloud.
> 
> Me thinks you need some sleep here. I've read this paragraph 4 times and
> it __still__ makes no sense.

I'm claiming that Qt is run 1% of the time in big-endian mode. Explain to me 
why the 99% should perform the byte swap.

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