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...


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