Jerome Warnier <jerome.warnier@chello.be> writes: > I read many times that those "unaligned traps" had a huge impact on > performance, don't you notice anything? It depends on their amount. I'd estimate an unaligned trap takes about 100 cycles to handle. So if for example on my SX, I get 1000 unaligned traps per second, I loose about 0.1% of the performance. You can check the amount of unaligned traps by watching /proc/cpuinfo. Falk