Jeff King wrote: > On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 02:17:55PM -0800, Jonathan Nieder wrote: >> I don't think that's a big issue. A pair of 4-byte reads would not be >> too slow. > > The header is actually two separate 4-byte values, so that's fine. But > between the header and trailer are a series of 8-byte data values, and > that is what we need the 8-byte alignment for. Sorry for the lack of clarity. What I meant is that a 4-byte aligned 8-byte value can be read using a pair of 4-byte reads, which is less of a performance issue than a completely unaligned value. [...] > Anyway, this is all academic until we are designing bitmap v2, which I > do not plan on doing anytime soon. Sure, fair enough. :) Jonathan -- 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