[postgis-devel] Aligned Speed

[strk]

On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 10:19:22AM +0000, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:

> There should be some measurable difference with a fast enough clock, but 
> as strk points out, the main reason we wish to align is to try and avoid 
> the overhead of memcpy() when accessing points in large geometries.

I wonder how much replacing the memcpy with bitwise ops would
speed the thing up...

--strk; 

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