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2007.10.23 08:10 "Re: bad version number 10752", by <jcupitt@gmail.com>
On 10/23/07, Graeme Gill <graeme2@argyllcms.com> wrote: > Kai-Uwe Behrmann wrote: > > Reads elegant. What would you suggest? > > If you're not familiar with the approach, take a look > at the source code in icclib. > > It's not as "efficient" as some other approaches, but in this age > of super fast core CPU speed, and relatively slow memory sytems, > the lack of efficiency is moot. It also avoids issues with > misaligned words etc., which trouble some architectures. I do a mix in my library: I do endian-independent read for the header, then for the data I test endianness at runtime and insert a swap operation if file endianness does not match CPU endianness. I suppose it depends on the mix of parsing file structure vs. reading large amounts of data. If you're parsing, I agree that reading a byte at a time is fine. If you need to get a large volume of data out of a file, then I think you need something lower level. John