Cort> For reference, the choice isn't arbitrary on all chips. The PPC
Cort> takes a minor performance hit when operating in LE mode and does
Cort> some inconvenient things when in LE mode (resulting in more work
Cort> needing to be done in software).
Cort> It's not clear yet that the ia64 is a sane architecture.
This is exactly the sort of things I would look at before deciding on
a byte order for Linux/IA64 - however since I don't know the technical
details I can't say which one is to be preferred to the other.
Jes
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