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> I wonder which architecture requires all pointers to have an alignment of 8. Many bytecode VMs in 64-bit mode do this by default! They may not be forced to a
by jiggawatts 2y ago
> I wonder which architecture requires all pointers to have an alignment of 8.
Many bytecode VMs in 64-bit mode do this by default! They may not be forced to align pointers by the CPU hardware, but they do it anyway for various reasons. Many (non-x86) CPUs require aligned pointers to either 32- or 64-bit boundaries.