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Question: Can you talk a little bit about structure/byte alignment, why it's important, and how to test you're doing it right when programming to get the best performance?
Asked by Will (70.173.80.x) on January 18 2014, 7:41am
Reply on January 18 2014, 10:22pm:
    For the most part the compiler should have reasonable defaults, unless you're using SSE, or doubles with gcc and can't set -malign-double (ugh!). For the latter case I made a macro called WDL_FIXALIGN, which I apply to double/int64 members of structs when the alignment is uncertain. One thing I should mention: if you have classes with virtual functions, remember the implicit vtable pointer (which on 32 bit platforms can mean being only 4 byte aligned rather than 8 byte aligned)!

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