[TUHS] Any UNIX With No C In Userland?

[Paul Winalski]

On Mon, Mar 3, 2025 at 1:28 PM Larry McVoy <lm at mcvoy.com> wrote:

>
> Even x86, it would appear, wants to do aligned loads.  I'm a little
> surprised by that though maybe I shouldn't be as there is a RISC
> implemented by the microcode under the x86 CPU.
>
> I don't think there's ever been a CPU design where unaligned accesses run
at the same speed as naturally aligned accesses.  The worst case is an
unaligned access that straddles a machine-word boundary.

-Paul W.
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