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I understand. What I mean is that if your word-size is not your addressing-size, you'd better not have a concept of mis-aligned accesses. It's trouble you broug
by throwaway000002 9y ago
I understand. What I mean is that if your word-size is not your addressing-size, you'd better not have a concept of mis-aligned accesses. It's trouble you brought on all by yourself.
- tedunangst 9y agoThe cray did this, iirc, and the result was that char pointers were extra fat because they needed to include the word address and the byte address within the word. That's not an efficiency improvement.