Re: More on Lisp structures performance

"Yuri Davidovsky (as work at disclosure dot ie)" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.lisp.lispworks.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> On 23 Jan 2026, at 20:30, Tim Bradshaw <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> It is 4 bits in 64-bit LW (and I expect in almost any modern 64-bit Lisp).  That's because addresses are double-word aligned so there are 4 free bits.

Hm. And how are you supposed to access individual 64 bit words using pointers whose addressing is aligned on 128 bits boundaries?

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