> Maximum alignment currently on x86 is 16 bytes for SSE vector > types. Next year AVX will add 32 byte types and while they are > supposed to work OK with 16 byte alignment, performance will be better > with 32 byte alignment.
That doesn't really matter. What matters is the platform's ABI, i.e. what the maximum alignment is that the compiler gives, and what the alignment of a malloc() result is. That is unlikely to change even if x86 evolves. Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
