Re: [PATCH] git gc: Speed it up by 18% via faster hash comparisons
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- H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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- Apr 28, 2011, 20:23 UTC
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On 04/28/2011 05:16 AM, Tor Arntsen wrote:
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> On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 12:30, Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On 4/28/11 1:19 PM, Erik Faye-Lund wrote: > [alignment issues] >> >> Yes, ARM is a problem and I didn't try to claim otherwise. However, it's not >> "impossible to fix" as you say with memalign(). > > MIPS (e.g. SGI machines) also bus-errors on non-aligned data.
On the other hand, MIPS has efficient instructions for accessing known-unaligned data.
-hpa