In our previous episode, Jonas Maebe said: > > reading and writing records as a whole safe on all platform/ > > architecture > > combinations right? Apart from a few padding bytes, what are the > > performance penalties of doing this then? Why would there be > > penalties? > > The cpu cache will contain lots of unused padding bytes.
And operations that move records will move more bytes. (e.g. reallocation). _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal