[rescue] FDDI card

[Dave McGuire]

On February 25, Scott Newell wrote:
> >> 1) There's always going to be a bottleneck in network IO as every byte
> >> that comes into the system has to be flipped around.  PC byteorder !=
> >> network byte order.
> 
> Does every byte really need to be flipped?  If it's part of a multibyte
> data member, sure.  But I would have guessed that a lot of packets contain
> data in the form of a byte stream that wouldn't require swapping.  Hmmm.

  There are LOTS of multibyte values in the protocols that I've
designed, but actual application data tends not to have many of them.
It's still enough to be an issue sometimes, though.

     -Dave

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Dave McGuire
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