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In retrospect, too many crazy software dances are due to miserliness on the part of hardware designs. Saving a couple bits in the address lines and not needing
by titzer 3y ago
In retrospect, too many crazy software dances are due to miserliness on the part of hardware designs. Saving a couple bits in the address lines and not needing to straddle cache lines? We're far past the point where that's a considerable cost, as all modern ISA implementations now attest.
- saagarjha 3y agoEveryone does this, but it’s definitely not trivial. Unaligned pointers have to deal with things like straddling pages.