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It’s amazing how much of this is still valid. One thing isn’t - 5a, unaligned access. Some modern RISCs allow this, probably because there’s enough code out th
by pizlonator 4y ago
It’s amazing how much of this is still valid.
One thing isn’t - 5a, unaligned access. Some modern RISCs allow this, probably because there’s enough code out there that does it.
- Gibbon1 4y agoI think the issue is due to the way modern memory architectures work alignment restrictions don't buy you much. In particular because memory accesses suck in a whole cache line. As long as all the data is in the cache line it's easy enough to swap bytes around on the fly.