Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rutgers!princeton!puvax2!D0430@PUCC.BITNET From: D0430@PUCC.BITNET (Paul Lansky) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: RPC/XDP overhead Message-ID: <1567@PUCC.BITNET> Date: Wed, 14-Jan-87 21:05:33 EST Article-I.D.: PUCC.1567 Posted: Wed Jan 14 21:05:33 1987 Date-Received: Thu, 15-Jan-87 18:46:06 EST Reply-To: D0430@PUCC.BITNET Organization: Princeton University - Computing and Information Technology Lines: 10 Disclaimer: Author bears full responsibility for contents of this article When running Vaxen and Suns with NFS what is the cost of a large amount (e.g. 2mbyte) of conversion of floats from IEEE->VAX or the other way around using xdp? I can see that it would be relatively painless for small amounts of data but what happens under larger loads? Byte-swapping I assume is cheap. Does anyone have a quicker solution? Paul Lansky Music Department Princeton University uucp == princeton!winnie!paul bitnet == d0430@pucc