m4_comment([$Id: byteorder.so,v 10.17 2001/02/15 22:21:13 bostic Exp $]) m4_ref_title(Access Methods, Selecting a byte order, selecting a @byte order, am_conf/cachesize, am_conf/dup) m4_p([dnl Database files created by m4_db can be created in either little- or big-endian formats. The byte order used for the underlying database is specified by calling the m4_refT(dbh_set_lorder). If no order is selected, the native format of the machine on which the database is created will be used.]) m4_p([dnl m4_db databases are architecture independent, and any format database can be used on a machine with a different native format. In this case, as each page that is read into or written from the cache must be converted to or from the host format, and databases with non-native formats will incur a performance penalty for the run-time conversion.]) m4_p([m4_bold([dnl It is important to note that the m4_db access methods do no data conversion for application specified data. Key/data pairs written on a little-endian format architecture will be returned to the application exactly as they were written when retrieved on a big-endian format architecture.])]) m4_page_footer
