On Mon, 3 Apr 2000, Jim Mostek wrote:
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> Let me strongly disagree with:
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> >If we end up with (b) this is a
> >relatively small additional development effort.
>
> The biggest part would come in all the support/testing/... on the
> different architecture combinations. If the on-disk format and log format
> are all fixed, it greatly simplifies things.
Let me strongly disagree.
OK, Jim and I are in a deadly disagree-disagree embrace now ... 8^)>
Well not really ... I said "small additional _development_ effort".
I should have stressed that beyond the development effort there is:
- code obfuscation and complexity (we need to change internal interfaces
to push down the "architecture" from the mount structure into places
it has not been needed before)
- run-time overhead
- testing complexity
- additional support and debugging pain
- log recovery (an unsolved problem)
Jim and I are in a deadly agree-agree embrace on the proposition that
big endian everywhere is the preferred position provided any
performance penalties are acceptably low.
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