It may in fact improve performance; aligned long words require fewer bus cycles.
-- thorpej Sent from my iPhone. > On Jun 12, 2025, at 3:18 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz > <[email protected]> wrote: > > It's also absurd that you think that switching the alignment to 4 bytes will > make the port considerably slower when the contrary is the case and NetBSD > developers on this thread have explained several times that they don't have > any issues with 4 bytes alignment. Heck, even Amiga Unix uses 4 bytes > alignment.
