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> Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 09:08:03 -0600
> From: Eric Rudd <rudd AT cyberoptics DOT com>
> 
> It appears that there is some merit in aligning to as large as a 64-byte
> boundary (the size of one cache line on the Pentium 4), though I think
> that most of the needs would be met with 8-byte alignment.

I agree that 8-byte alignment is good enough.  For better alignment,
they could use memalign, which IIRC we have in the CVS.