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From: alverson@decwrl.dec.com (Robert Alverson)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: "big endian" vs. "little endian"
Summary: no difference for strcmp
Message-ID: <1009@bacchus.dec.com>
Date: 3 Jan 89 00:43:32 GMT
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I've implemented a fast word oriented strcmp function.  The word compare
used in the inner loop does not depend on the endian-ness of the machine.
In fact, I can switch a few defines to compile for either endian kind.
So, at least for C, I don't find the endian-ness to make much difference
performance wise.

Bob    (alverson@decwrl.dec.com)