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Re: Default endianess

Rosyna wrote:
there are lots of integer values in it that will need swapping, potentially
hundreds of thousands of them for a single file, so I thought I should pick
the format that's most likely to be native in the future. Some speculation
is pretty much unavoidable here. 
 I'm designing a new file format and the nature of the data is such that

But won't doing that for older machines create a huge performance burden that they may not be able to handle?
Let's keep some perspective here. G4s and G5s aren't complete dogs. They can run Virtual PC and emulate WinXP at a passable speed (and the G5 really is doing all the byteswapping on the CPU). Imagine how many byteswaps per second that bad boy's doing. I don't think a few million byteswaps during a file load will affect much of anything.

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