[PD-dev] gcc 4.1 and auto-vectorization

[Mathieu Bouchard]

On Sun, 19 Nov 2006, Tim Blechmann wrote:

> what makes you think, that just aligning memory regions introduces a 
> performance boost? how can a compiler generate code for aligned memory, 
> if the memory is aligned, but the compiler isn't aware of that?

The machine code can be code that works regardless of memory alignment, 
but runs faster when the memory is aligned.

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