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Ballot: Sun 64-bit binary alignment proposal v2 document
Company:
Emulex Corporation
Vote:
No
Comment:
I like the 8 byte header part of this proposal, but I voted no because a yes vote is to accept padding to 64 bits, which adds extra bytes per object over the 32 bit proposal. The extra bytes used in the value apparently is important to some implementations to conserve memory and seems like the contentious part of this proposal. Without the 64 bit alignment, 64 bit processors implementations may produce console messages but this could be worked around to avoid those messages. In retrospect, splitting the ballot on the header size and the value field size, may have been useful.