On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 3:43 PM, Jed Brown <jed at 59a2.org> wrote: > > What advantage does this have over just aligning all the pointers (even > to 16-byte to enable movapd and prevent many loads across a cacheline > split, see http://x264dev.multimedia.cx/?p=8)? ?The arithmetic and few > wasted bytes is trivial compared to the cost of the allocation, so I > don't see a reason not to. >
I think Jed has a VERY good point here... -- Lisandro Dalc?n --------------- Centro Internacional de M?todos Computacionales en Ingenier?a (CIMEC) Instituto de Desarrollo Tecnol?gico para la Industria Qu?mica (INTEC) Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cient?ficas y T?cnicas (CONICET) PTLC - G?emes 3450, (3000) Santa Fe, Argentina Tel/Fax: +54-(0)342-451.1594