March 8, 2024
5:47 p.m.
On 2024-03-08 08:16, Bradley White via tz wrote:
It might. A convincing proposal would include an experiment to show that it does.
At first blush, I imagine that reading a file dominates swapping bytes by orders of magnitude.
If we someone goes this route, they should also try aligning the data. The cost of unaligned loads could dominate the cost of swapping bytes. That being said, any performance gain is likely not worth the compatibility hassle.