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2004.04.22 18:21 "Re: Large TIFF files", by Chris Cox
> > And when writing the libraries, it's helpful to be able to read the > > file format in a hex editor ;-) > > Real programmers dream in hex :) Yes, but do they dream in big endian or little endian? Using ASCII tags would make it readable regardless of byte order. Of course, that brings up the question: do we still need to support two byte orders? In my experiments, reading from the disk always swamped the time needed to swap byte order - so there is no noticable impact from using a fixed byte order and forcing conversion on one platform the other. Chris