New posts in Memory Alignment

Why does CPU access memory on a word boundary?

What is meant by "memory is 8 bytes aligned"?

why is data structure alignment important for performance?

Alignment requirements for atomic x86 instructions vs. MS's InterlockedCompareExchange documentation?

Are stack variables aligned by the GCC __attribute__((aligned(x)))?

Compelling examples of custom C++ allocators?

Why does the Mac ABI require 16-byte stack alignment for x86-32?

Purpose of memory alignment