Eric Blake writes:
> On 01/28/2016 08:34 AM, Markus Armbruster wrote:
>> Eric Blake writes:
>>
>>> By sticking the next pointer first, we don't need a union with
>>> 64-bit padding for smaller types. On 32-bit platforms, this
>>> can reduce the size of
Eric Blake writes:
> By sticking the next pointer first, we don't need a union with
> 64-bit padding for smaller types. On 32-bit platforms, this
> can reduce the size of uint8List from 16 bytes (or 12, depending
> on whether 64-bit ints can tolerate 4-byte alignment) down to
On 01/28/2016 08:34 AM, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> Eric Blake writes:
>
>> By sticking the next pointer first, we don't need a union with
>> 64-bit padding for smaller types. On 32-bit platforms, this
>> can reduce the size of uint8List from 16 bytes (or 12, depending
>> on
By sticking the next pointer first, we don't need a union with
64-bit padding for smaller types. On 32-bit platforms, this
can reduce the size of uint8List from 16 bytes (or 12, depending
on whether 64-bit ints can tolerate 4-byte alignment) down to 8.
It has no effect on 64-bit platforms (where