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- Subject: Re: [eigen] Map: introduce "AlignedPointer" flag?
- From: Rohit Garg <rpg.314@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:46:58 +0530
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If I understand this correctly, this is about making fixed size
objects vectorizable with Map's? If not, then it is on my wishlist.
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 7:40 PM, Benoit Jacob <jacob.benoit.1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> This is for Gael. Currently in Map, what's the precise meaning of
> "ForceAligned" ? Is it:
>
> " If you use packet access, then use aligned packet access " ?
>
> If yes, is it correct to say that at the moment we don't offer any way
> to tell that the pointer passed to Map is aligned, and that therefore
> we may enable packet access also e.g. for good fixed sizes? I remember
> you saying something like "we need a FirstAligned flag", were you
> talking about that? What do you think about calling that
> AlignedPointer and renaming ForceAligned to ForceAlignedAccess ?
> Finally, can you remind me what the use case for ForceAligned is, if
> we have AlignedPointer?
>
> If you tell me all that I can try to get that done ;)
>
> Benoit
>
>
>
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Rohit Garg
http://rpg-314.blogspot.com/
Senior Undergraduate
Department of Physics
Indian Institute of Technology
Bombay