Andy Wingo <[email protected]> skribis: > On Fri 08 Feb 2013 15:10, [email protected] (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > >>> GC_malloc still returns eight-byte aligned memory hunks on 64-bit, no? >> >> Oh right: > > Does it? I couldn't tell from your test. I'm not a native unfolder :)
Yes, it’s always eight-byte aligned (even on 32-bit IIRC), and often 16-byte aligned. >> And with 16 cases, we could even put single-precision floats in a word, >> chars, and who knows what! > > Chars are already immediate :) Right, well, strings then! ;-) Ludo’.
