On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 12:43 PM, Alexander Kjeldaas <alexander.kjeld...@gmail.com> wrote: > Unaligned word-sized loads work fine on x86, and this would be x86-64 only, > or even Nehalem (and later) only. Or, from a cost perspective, it could > be interesting for non-Nehalem as well, as RAM is (usually) the most > expensive component when running a server. (But anyways, developing > features for pre-Nehalem is slightly pointless IMHO). > So I guess the alignment would be per-architecture or a flag. If it is > currently hardcoded, it would have to be configurable. > Alexander
I think problem is that there's code that's shared between all platforms that rely on the alignment. This code would have to be parameterized by the platform. It's potentially a very big task. _______________________________________________ Cvs-ghc mailing list Cvs-ghc@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/cvs-ghc
