Yokemate of Keyboards
Posts: 12146 from 2003/5/22
From: Germany
> What he means by cost? [...] a well designed memory protection system wont be
> noticeable to the use performance wise.
I think that copying the contents of a memory area is always slower than just passing a pointer.
>> For MorphOS to keep backward compability a true bigendian mode is required.
> For backwards compatibility you use an emulator.
Yes, that's what's done in MorphOS (and OS4). And for such transparent emulation you need a matching byte order, as Zylesea correctly points out.