/prog/ - TTF Idiocy — Tinychan BBS

Name: Cudder !cXCudderUE 2017-10-07 4:15

At first glance TTF looks like a reasonable format --- you can just read the various tables into memory and they'll line up nicely with their structure definitions...

...until you realise that all the fields are in big (i.e. backwards) endian, so you have to manually swap all the fucking bytes!

Name: Anonymous 2017-10-07 4:24

>>1
>backwards
um no, intel has it backwards
what kind of wanker thought that little endian was a good idea?

imagine how many YEARS worth of processor cycles and electricity have been wasted since the dawn of computing over converting between big and little endian? Note that this happens EVERY time you send an IP packet over the network (htons and family).

our garbage protocols and conventions prevent us from reaching the maximum possible computing efficiency, not the technology itself. sad state of affairs, no?

TTF Idiocy

1 Name: Cudder !cXCudderUE 2017-10-07 4:15

2 Name: Anonymous 2017-10-07 4:24

Name: Cudder !cXCudderUE 2017-10-07 4:15

Name: Anonymous 2017-10-07 4:24