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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA1018 ; Wed, 10 Feb 93 22:00:44 EST Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!uunet!newsgate.watson.ibm.com!news.ans.net!howland.reston.ans.net!usc!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!news2me.EBay.Sun.COM!seven-up.East.Sun.COM!sungy!news.Sweden.Sun.COM!swippy!seunet!sunic!mcsun!sun4nl!relay.philips.nl!cnplss5!rooij From: rooij@mozart.cft.philips.nl (Guido van Rooij) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: [386bsd] speeding up network with 486 Message-ID: <1993Feb9.150446.8956@cnplss5.cnps.philips.nl> Date: 9 Feb 93 15:04:46 GMT Sender: news@cnplss5.cnps.philips.nl (USENET News System) Organization: Philips Communications & Processing Services, Eindhoven Lines: 7 Nntp-Posting-Host: bashful On the 486, a few extructions are present that are not found on the 386. If I am not msitaken, 2 of them can be used for byte swapping, i.e. to translate between big/little endian order. This can of course well be used within functions like ntohl and friends. Has someoen already done this? I think quite a performance gain should be possible. -Guido