[zeromq-dev] Memory alignment
Chuck Remes
cremes.devlist at mac.com
Fri Jul 8 16:38:28 CEST 2011
On Jul 8, 2011, at 2:15 AM, Martin Sustrik wrote:
> On 07/08/2011 09:04 AM, Pieter Hintjens wrote:
>
>> The cost is 2 or 6 extra bytes.
>
> Yes. That's the reason why it's not implemented that way. For VSMs that
> would mean 15% increase in overall memory usage.
Perhaps we could make that a configure option when building the library. That is, pass a flag to change the zmq_msg_t structure layout to optimize for memory or for speed (default to memory optimization as it is today).
cr
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