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From: bcase@uiucdcs.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Arbitrary byte alignment
Message-ID: <27800025@uiucdcs.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 5-Oct-84 11:46:00 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct  5 11:46:00 1984
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Nf-From: uiucdcs!bcase    Oct  5 10:46:00 1984

The main reason most memories don't support all kinds of arbitrary
alignments is that the critical path to memory is lengthened.  Thus,
even memory references which do not require the alignment hardware
pay the price and are slowed down.  And sometimes the hardware itself
can be more expensive than the memory chips (in small memories).

    bcase