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|    Robert Finch to All    |
|    Re: Unaligned Memory Access    |
|    02 Dec 25 07:10:16    |
      From: robfi680@gmail.com              Semi-unaligned memory tradeoff. If unaligned access is required, the       memory logic just increments the physical address by 64 bytes to fetch       the next cache line. The issue with this is it does not go backwards to       get the address fetched again from the TLB. Meaning no check is made for       protection or translation of the address.              It would be quite slow to have the instructions reissued and percolate       down the cache access again.              This should only be an issue if an unaligned access crosses a memory       page boundary.              The instruction causes an alignment fault if a page cross boundary is       detected.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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