Subject: Re: [PATCH] git gc: Speed it up by 18% via faster hash comparisons

From: "H. Peter Anvin" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 13:23:52 -0700

On 04/28/2011 05:16 AM, Tor Arntsen wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 12:30, Pekka Enberg <[email-masked]> 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