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2004.04.22 18:34 "Re: Large TIFF files", by Thomas J Kacvinsky
On Thu, 22 Apr 2004, Chris Cox wrote: <snip> > 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. Tom