Hi, I just found out we currently align all pinned array payloads to 16 bytes and I'm wondering why. I don't see any comments/notes on this, and it's also not part of the primop documentation. We also have another primop for aligned allocation: newAlignedPinnedByteArray#. Given that alignment behavior of newPinnedByteArray# is not documented and we have another one for aligned allocation, perhaps we can remove alignment in newPinnedByteArray#.
Does anyone remember what was the motivation for always aligning pinned arrays? Thanks Ömer _______________________________________________ ghc-devs mailing list ghc-devs@haskell.org http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs
