Date: Mon, 16 Aug 93 09:50:33 -0400
From: dj AT ctron DOT com (DJ Delorie)
To: gbm AT ii DOT pw DOT edu DOT pl
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu, eyal AT fir DOT canberra DOT edu DOT au
Subject: Re: SVGA page fault risk.

> use byte accesses or aligned accesses. Note that using misaligned word transfers
> should not be faster than using byte transfers, especially on CPUs with internal
> cache.

Misaligned transfers happen at the same speed as the alignment.  Ie:
32-bit transfers on a byte boundary happen at the same speed as byte
transfers.  This is even true for *system* memory.