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Re: Speed up array allocation
- To: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
- Subject: Re: Speed up array allocation
- From: Jeff Sturm <jsturm at detroit dot appnet dot com>
- Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 17:37:03 -0500 (EST)
- cc: Bryce McKinlay <bryce at albatross dot co dot nz>, java-patches at sources dot redhat dot com
On 5 Jan 2001, Tom Tromey wrote:
> Another choice would be to force every array to have the same
> alignment. I didn't want to do that since it wastes space.
Really? If you require all arrays to have double alignment, I figure you
waste at most 4 bytes per array (on x86). Is that really significant to
some apps? I personally would prefer the simplicity of uniform
array alignment.
Jeff