> Because its incredibly non obvious. Some of the folk doing big number
> crunches noticed that the size of your environment changed the
> performance. [...]
hm, maybe time to add 'misalignment fault' counting support to the kernel?
Has anyone tried this? Does it work for the FPU too? Is it reliable? ;)
i remember Dave has made this for the Sparc, and there is something like
this for x86 too.
-- mingo