Subject: Re: Berkeley DB's in /usr/share.
To: Simon Burge <simonb@netbsd.org>
From: Hubert Feyrer <feyrer@rfhs8012.fh-regensburg.de>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 08/23/1999 03:34:29
On Sun, 22 Aug 1999, Simon Burge wrote:
> For termcap.db, I'm proposing we make it a little-endian Berkeley
> DB. My first thought was to make it big-endian, as BE is the basis
> of network-byte ordering and it seemed like "tradition". However, (I
> think) the slowest machines we have are some of the Vaxs, and they're
> little endian and every little bit helps those machines :-).
second slowest is probably all the m68k ports, and i guess they outnumber
the VAXens a fair bit, so I guess you would probably help more people if
you'd put this BE.
- Hubert
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