25 Sep
2009
25 Sep
'09
11:20 p.m.
On Sep 25, 2009, at 07:54 , Duncan Coutts wrote:
pessimistic. We could do better on machines that are tolerant of misaligned memory accesses such as x86. We'd need to use cpp to switch
Hm. I thought x86 could be tolerant (depending on a cpu configuration bit) but the result was so slow that it wasn't worth it? -- brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] allbery@kf8nh.com system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH