Alignment of ws allocations

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <4BCB27F7.9040304 at schokola.de>, Nils Goroll writes:
>Hi Poul-Henning,
>
>could you provide a brief explanation on your decision to make all WS
>allocations (void *) aligned? http://varnish-cache.org/ticket/665#comment:2
>
>I had considered this solution, but I had thought aligning char * would just be
>a waste of ws space. Or is there anything I don't know?

There are two reasons:

1. It's easier to not have a split-policy

2. Most memcpy() implementations works best with aligned start addresses.

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