Re: Question on BIGGEST_ALIGNMENT in GCC on NetBSD/m68k

Jason Thorpe <[email protected]> Thu, 12 Jun 2025 06:00:04 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.linux.ports.m68k,gmane.os.netbsd.ports.m68k,gmane.linux.debian.ports.68k
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It may in fact improve performance; aligned long words require fewer bus cycles.

-- thorpej
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> On Jun 12, 2025, at 3:18 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> It's also absurd that you think that switching the alignment to 4 bytes will
> make the port considerably slower when the contrary is the case and NetBSD
> developers on this thread have explained several times that they don't have
> any issues with 4 bytes alignment. Heck, even Amiga Unix uses 4 bytes alignment.