From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 X-Original-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.104]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 089FFBBCA for ; Mon, 5 May 2008 08:42:42 +0200 (CEST) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AlECAJRJHkhDz4HeiGdsb2JhbACRdQEBAQ8gl0U X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.27,436,1204498800"; d="scan'208";a="12249131" Received: from fettunta.fettunta.org ([67.207.129.222]) by mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 05 May 2008 08:42:41 +0200 Received: from aquarium.takhisis.invalid (unknown [10.17.0.10]) by fettunta.fettunta.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02EC1181B5 for ; Mon, 5 May 2008 06:42:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: by aquarium.takhisis.invalid (Postfix, from userid 1000) id BFD8A12459B; Mon, 5 May 2008 08:42:38 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 5 May 2008 08:42:38 +0200 From: Stefano Zacchiroli To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Core has landed Message-ID: <20080505064238.GC29236@aquarium.takhisis.invalid> References: <1209764381.8680.38.camel@nyc-qws-018.delacy.com> <20080503081946.GA30935@annexia.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17+20080114 (2008-01-14) X-Spam: no; 0.00; zacchiroli:01 zack:01 markus:01 mottl:01 endian:01 ocaml:01 endian:01 patched:01 cheers:01 zacchiroli:01 zack:01 unibo:01 wrote:01 caml-list:01 dependency:01 On Sun, May 04, 2008 at 10:14:26PM -0400, Markus Mottl wrote: > If performance does not matter, it would be easiest to just convert > all data to the protocol already used by little endian machines. This > would noticably slow down communication with/among machines that are > not little endians. Since the vast majority of computers are little > endians, this won't matter for most people. OCaml takes a similar > approach. Sounds like a reasonable solution indeed. Way better than not having bin-prot on some archs (this is particularly annoying in Debian, where we support several big endian machines; the status quo would mean no Core on them and in turn no application using Core on them. Currently we patched Core on that architecture to remove the bin-prot dependency, but is a rather hackish solution I would like to get rid off). Do you plan to implement such a solution in forthcoming releases? Thanks, Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science ............... now what? zack@{upsilon.cc,cs.unibo.it,debian.org} -<%>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ (15:56:48) Zack: e la demo dema ? /\ All one has to do is hit the (15:57:15) Bac: no, la demo scema \/ right keys at the right time