>On Tue, 4 Mar 1997, Marc Lehmann wrote:
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>> Another thing: could anybody benchmark that
>> a zero alignment on the pentium oes NOT impact performance.
>> In my opinion, a 4 byte alignment (as it is currently)
>> is just a sin.. it doesn't help the pentium, and
>> it doesn't help the i486 (it DOES help the i486 though).
>>
>I compiled kernel and libc with alignment set to 0/1.. no difference in speed.
>Anything above align 3 slows things down fast.
>
Did you use a pentium or a ppro? If you use a pentium, please post
this to linux-kernel, just as proof..
Thanks,
Marc
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