On Sun, 4 Oct 2015 07:21:42 -0700, glen herrmannsfeldt wrote: >you could alternate between entries with the A first and last. > >It makes the table lookup code slightly more complicated,
Yes, it does >but allows >for aligned A entries. with the intention, I suppose, of making the LOAD go faster. AFAIK, the only time that there is a penalty for misaligned operands is when crossing a cache line boundary. So you slow down the search by a little bit for each entry, to (maybe) gain a bit on the load. And you make the code harder to read. -- Tom Marchant
