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Article #12557Re: Swap byte instruction - how high is the win?
From: Kenneth Ng
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 01:50
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 01:50
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In article <PRENER.93Jan7233525@prener.watson.ibm.com: prener@watson.ibm.com (Dan Prener) writes: :The win is approximately zero for general code. But it is significant :for emulating a processor with the opposite byte order. And if you are using something like TCP/IP, you are emulating a network processor (ie: network byte ordering). -- Kenneth Ng Please reply to ken@eies2.njit.edu for now. Apple and AT&T lawsuits: Just say NO!
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!gatech!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!agate!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!rutgers!fdurt1.fdu.edu!wisdom.bubble.org!sugra!ken From: ken@sugra.uucp (Kenneth Ng) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Swap byte instruction - how high is the win? Message-ID: <1993Jan12.015029.1528@sugra.uucp> Date: 12 Jan 93 01:50:29 GMT References: <1993Jan7.074052.19620@qb.rhein-main.de: <PRENER.93Jan7233525@prener.watson.ibm.com> Organization: Private Computer, Totowa, NJ Lines: 11