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From:	"Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" <salvador AT inti DOT gov DOT ar>
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To:	cmatraki AT ee DOT ucl DOT ac DOT uk (Chris Matrakidis), djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Date:	Wed, 28 Apr 1999 10:45:58 +0000
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cmatraki AT ee DOT ucl DOT ac DOT uk (Chris Matrakidis) wrote:

> I'm not sure whether 32-byte alignment is the best option, but the waste
> seemed reasonable and SET said in that old thread that this will give better
> results in some cases.

I still having a special section in my link configuration with a very well 
aligned section to put critical code. I determined the best aligment using a 
Cyrix 5x86 processor, it uses a 128 bits data path inside the CPU.
One interesting thing: Anybody looked inside a binary generated by Visual C++ 
(the one that generates fastes code currently). When I saw the binaries I got 
amazed about the huge number of NOP introduced.

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