Subj : Re: SpiderMonkey on Mac/Codewarrior
To   : Shanti Rao
From : Brendan Eich
Date : Sat Aug 14 2004 12:15 pm

Shanti Rao wrote:
> The other thing you may want to do is set the byte alignment to 4. I 
> think CW uses 8 by default. Don't use 1 or 2, though, because SM uses 
> the 'shadow' bytes between memory blocks to do garbage collection.


No shadow bytes -- SpiderMonkey calls malloc with an overlarge amount as 
needed, and aligns the return value to the required modulus.

What problems did you see with 1 or 2 byte alignment?  Was this recent, 
or ages ago?

/be

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