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Re:Redis on the Raspberry Pi: Adventures in unaligned lands by throwaway000002 on Friday July 14, 2017 @11:30AM (#14770552)
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.
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Re:Redis on the Raspberry Pi: Adventures in unaligned lands by tedunangst on Friday July 14, 2017 @03:30PM (#14772499)
The 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.
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