RPC/XDP overhead

[Paul Lansky]

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
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