[ogg-dev] OggPCM: support for little-endianness only?

[Erik de Castro Lopo]

Jean-Marc Valin wrote:

> Really? How low does it take to swap bytes vs. the time it takes to read
> from disk?

In CPU cycles? The difference is enormous.

If no byte swapping is required the vast majority of the work is done by
the DMA engine, from disk straight into user space memory and while the
read is underway, the CPU can do other work.

For the byte swapping case, every sample needs to be loaded into the cache
and CPU, byte swapped and then written back to memory.

Erik
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