scott.r...@joann.com (Scott Rowe) writes: > Just a wild guess. If all pointers are to storage on a doubleword boundary, > the address can be shifted right three bits. Then you can point to any > doubleword below 32 GB using an unsigned 32-bit address. How that might > help performance is a mystery to me.
don't laugh, I've actually done that for an application ... which involves huge number of pointers (significantly reduced storage required before needing to roll over to 64-bit pointers). -- 40+yrs virtualization experience (since Jan68), online at home since Mar1970 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
