On Thu, Jun 08, 2000 at 09:30:40AM -0700, Chris G. Demetriou wrote:
> aligning the data on write will not help, since db is just going to
> re-pack it anyway.
> 
> checking the alignment of the data on read might, though... depending
> on the size of your copy and the cost of the test.  8-)

Only 2*int + pointer, that's 16 bytes. Not a big deal, I don't think the test
is needed here.

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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