Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 22:42:11 -0400
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> Modern processors care about alignments as large as *256 bits*!? 64
> bits for doubles or for ints on 64 bit chips, I figured, but 256!?

Cache lines are often that large.  Aligning data to cache lines
improves cache performance.

And long doubles should be 16-byte aligned (128 bits), which is only
half of the the default anyway.