On Tue, 6 Apr 1999, Bruce Evans wrote:
> >Alternately, we could jimmy around with the current hack, and prefix it > >with 4 NULs, and see what happened. Sorry, I haven't tested this idea, as > >I've not yet made the EGCS jump. > > egcs aligns long (>= about 28 bytes) strings to 32-byte boundaries. This > adds up to 27 NULs to sccsid[] depending on the alignment of sccsidp[]. > > Aligning long strings to 32-byte boundaries is a pessimisation in kernels > (because it makes poor locality poorer), especially on 486's where the > cache line size is 16. > > Bruce > not aligning data is extremely expensive on PII's rob To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
