Gábor Melis wrote:
> I understand that at some points keys were aligned to 2 bytes and
> maybe values, too:
> https://github.com/AltSysrq/lmdb-zero/issues/8
> Maybe that's still the case.

Keys are always aligned to 2 bytes, values will not be aligned if the
key length is odd.

In LMDB 1.0 keys and values are always 2-byte aligned (the key gets an
extra padding byte if it's odd length).

> However a solution I'm looking at needs double word (16 bytes on 64
> bit) alignment of values. This would allow using the value directly as
> a read-only Lisp object. Leaving whether that's a good idea aside, is
> there any way to guarantee double word alignment of values? My
> preliminary hacks involving varying the key size were not successful.

Should work if the value size is always 16-byte aligned, and the key
size is 24.
> 
> Cheers,
> Gábor Melis
> 


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