Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 24 Jun 1998 09:39:59 +0930 (CST) | From | Alan Modra <> | Subject | Re: -malign-loops=2 -malign-jumps=2 -malign-functions=2, Why? |
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On Tue, 23 Jun 1998, Marc Lehmann wrote:
> no. could we solve this problem now? 4 byte alignment on pentiums is EVIL > EVIL EVIL. its worse than either zero or 16. Its a total waste of space.
Can you prove this claim?
I've seen results that show 4 byte alignment is *better* than 16 byte on a pentium because it reduces the cache footprint. Of course, this may be only with certain hardware.
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