Actually, it *is* cached. See SmalltalkImage>>endianness. Use the 
Source, Luke! ;-)

- Bert -

Am 23.09.2004 um 10:52 schrieb Yoshiki Ohshima:

>   Hello,
>
>   It slipped into a changeset from one of my experiment.  The
> intention was to cache the endianness value and to avoid doing the
> BitBlt every time.
>
>   It is fine with me to remove it, but later we may add this caching
> feature...
>
> -- Yoshiki
>
> At Tue, 21 Sep 2004 16:25:14 +0200,
> stéphane ducasse wrote:
>>
>> ok this is done.
>>
>> Stef
>> On 21 sept. 04, at 14:26, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Am 21.09.2004 um 13:19 schrieb stéphane ducasse:
>>>
>>>> hi guys
>>>>
>>>> in 3.8 there is a class with a single class method named
>>>> calcEndianness which is already in SmalltalkImage current. ;(
>>>>
>>>> I will deprecated it becasuse it was not in 3.7.  I would like to
>>>> remove directly the class because but I would like to know what is
>>>> the impact regardings squeaklander. I could simply deprecated the
>>>> method but we are in unstable stream now.
>>>
>>> Remove it, it's actually broken in the Squeakland image.
>>>
>>> - Bert -
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>