[Interest] Interest Digest, Vol 80, Issue 8

Jason H jhihn at gmx.com
Mon May 14 17:14:24 CEST 2018



> Sent: Saturday, May 12, 2018 at 1:06 PM
> From: "Thiago Macieira" <thiago.macieira at intel.com>
> To: interest at qt-project.org
> Subject: Re: [Interest] Interest Digest, Vol 80, Issue 8
>
> On Saturday, 12 May 2018 07:11:57 PDT Roland Hughes wrote:
> > On 05/12/2018 08:57 AM, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> > > 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.
> > 
> > Because that class was created to communicate with the big-endian world
> > of real computers.
> 
> No, it was not. It was created to communicate with other Qt applications.
> 
> > Do not change the default. Feel free to create a
> > different class,
> 
> I won't change the default, but mostly because I want people to stop using 
> QDataStream altogether and switch to CBOR. So I won't invest any time in 
> updating QDataStream so the problems you've raised in terms of compatibility 
> would be addressed. (yes, the  problems would be real)


Is there going to be some kind of serialization operator/function for CBOR?



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