Jeff King wrote: > On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 09:53:26PM +0000, brian m. carlson wrote: >> Yes, it will. SPARC requires all loads be naturally aligned (4-byte to >> an address that's a multiple of 4, 8-byte to a multiple of 8, and so >> on). In general, architectures that do not support unaligned access >> require natural alignment for all quantities. > > In that case, I think we cannot even blame Shawn. The ewah serialization > format itself (which JGit inherited from the javaewah library) has 8 > bytes of header and 4 bytes of trailer. So packed serialized ewahs > wouldn't be 8-byte aligned I don't think that's a big issue. A pair of 4-byte reads would not be too slow. Even on x86, aligned reads are supposed to be faster than unaligned reads (though I haven't looked at benchmarks recently). -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html