[PATCH] PPC64 iSeries: cleanup viopath

[Brad Boyer]

On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 11:43:10AM -0600, Linas Vepstas wrote:
> FWIW, keep in mind that a cache miss due to large structures not fitting
> is a zillion times more expensive than byte-aligning in the cpu 
> (even if byte operands had a cpu perf overhead, which I don't think 
> they do on ppc).

Actually, there is a small overhead to bytes if you make them signed.
That's why char is unsigned by default on ppc.

	Brad Boyer
	flar at allandria.com