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Re^2: Fastest byteswap (little endian to big endian (eg. 34127856 -> 12345678)

by ikegami (Patriarch)
on Apr 14, 2015 at 12:48 UTC ( [id://1123401]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re: Fastest byteswap (little endian to big endian (eg. 34127856 -> 12345678)
in thread Fastest byteswap (little endian to big endian (eg. 34127856 -> 12345678)

What copying? No string is copied in that code. COW would not help.
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Re^3: Fastest byteswap (little endian to big endian (eg. 34127856 -> 12345678)
by Eily (Monsignor) on Apr 14, 2015 at 14:38 UTC

    There is in the second method posted by james28909:

    my $data = do { local $/ = undef; open (my $fh, "<", $input_file) or die "could not open $input_file +: $!"; binmode($fh); <$fh>; }; my $reversed_data = pack( "v*", unpack( "n*", $data ) );
    But since it's not copied from one variable to another, it probably makes little difference indeed, I didn't think it through.

      That code does copy —note the assignment operator— but I think COW wouldn't help there either because I think the string would be stolen from the temp rather than copied.
        Whoa, why the downvotes? Rephrased in case it was confusing.

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