Dear Ann,

Le 26-nov.-06 à 21:13, Ann W. Harrison a écrit :

> Essentially these message describe the full implementation of a
> mechanism to allow access to other-endian databases. It seems like
> a useful feature to me.

This all mechanism fits perfectly my own definition of a real big
hack... but a clever one and I have to confess I love it and support it.

Now, see how easily the Mac OS X port might be made 'Universal
Binary' ;-)
Creating a database, it would create it using the engine byte-order
of the underlying platform PPC or Intel. Opening a database, it
would be better to have it created on the same platform, but would
anyway work flawlessly, although eventually a bit slower, with the
'wrong' byte ordering. And a simple backup / restore would of course
as always convert it once and for all, without even requiring me to
still have a PPC cpu for the backup. That's convenience. That's
clever software.


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Olivier Mascia