[darcs-users] soc progress 5

[Petr Rockai]

"Trent W. Buck" <trentbuck at gmail.com> writes:
> OK, so a (hopefully) more realistic case: Alice has her repo on a USB
> key, and she plugs it into whatever "hot desk" workstation is free in
> the computer lab.  Some labs have PowerPC and some have AMD64.
>
> Will the index be regenerated every time she moves from a PowerPC lab
> to an AMD64 lab, and vice-versa?

The whole point of endianity conversion is that big and little endian machines
will produce bit-to-bit identical index file. (Ie. what I mean is adding a few
xlate calls into the Index code in hashed-storage.)

Yours,
   Petr.

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