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Date: Thu, 01 May 1997 12:30:48 +0200
From: Michal <wapex AT silesia DOT top DOT pl>
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Subject: Re: Alignment
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> They don't have to be, 32 byte alignment is all that's needed AFAIK.
Sorry, I mean ofcoure 64bit(8 byte) not 64 byte boundary.
> 
> I would guess that's because of the effects related to the CPU cache.  If
> you really care, you could disable the caches and see if adding an int
> variable changes anything.
> 
> But why should you care that much about 10%?  In my experience, such
> effects are highly dependant on the particular CPU and motherboard that
> you are running on, so why bother?

I have checked the address of the first double, it have increased by 4
bytes when I have added an int beafore.