[fpc-devel] State of SSE/AVX intrinsics

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Wed, 22 Apr 2020, Tomas Hajny wrote:

> On 2020-04-21 20:47, J. Gareth Moreton wrote:
>
>
> Hi,
>
>> As I mentioned in my future development post,
>> do you think FPC could benefit from
>> GetMemAligned and ReallocMemAligned routines?
>> The internal functions could be used to help
>> control such custom alignment in dynamic
>> arrays.
>
> Wouldn't it be better to use either some kind of global property or an 
> optional additional argument than completely new routines requiring 
> explicit handling not only from the end-user programs, but also from all 
> units which may in turn be involved in memory allocation (including 
> various containers etc.)?

I think so too.

What's more, I thought the memory allocation routines already guarantee some
form of alignment, simply because of the internal structures used by the memory
manager ?

Michael.