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2004.04.22 18:43 "Re: Large TIFF files", by Chris Cox
At 2:34 PM -0400 4/22/04, Thomas J. Kacvinsky wrote: > > > 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. > > I suggest that network byte order (big endian) be used. Especially if > any Big TIFF variant will go before the IETF for RFC approval. OK - I was going to hold back the standards discussion for later.... But yes, that's another reason to go with a single byte order. Chris