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Re: Question on BIGGEST_ALIGNMENT in GCC on NetBSD/m68k



It may in fact improve performance; aligned long words require fewer bus cycles.

-- thorpej
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> On Jun 12, 2025, at 3:18 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
> 
> It's also absurd that you think that switching the alignment to 4 bytes will
> make the port considerably slower when the contrary is the case and NetBSD
> developers on this thread have explained several times that they don't have
> any issues with 4 bytes alignment. Heck, even Amiga Unix uses 4 bytes alignment.


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