On Wed, Dec 21, 2022 at 04:49:17PM -0500, Ben Cotton wrote:
The use-case for clients with different endianess is
''very'' niche.
It was common in the 1980s when X was originally developed but at this
point a vanishingly small number of users run clients and X servers on
different machines,
I doubt this part is true. Have you measured it? Anyway I use this
all the time (though not with different endianness).
* this only affects use-cases where the server runs on a little
endian
host and the client on a Big Endian host (or vice versa).
I guess this affects something like x86 server running a client on
s390x (which is very rare indeed).
Rich.
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