[foreign] Feature request: Scope.allocate*() with given alignment

Lev Serebryakov lev at serebryakov.spb.ru
Thu Feb 28 17:31:05 UTC 2019


On 28.02.2019 19:30, Maurizio Cimadamore wrote:

> We have plans for that - the basic idea is to use special annotation in
> the underlying layout which will give the runtime hints on alignment.
 What do you mean by underlying layout here?
 For example, AVX512 code needs `Array<Float>` but aligned at 64 byte
boundary, when natural `Float` alignment is only 4 bytes.

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// Black Lion AKA Lev Serebryakov



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