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Aligned allocation #24
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This seems like a very nice and useful little library. Definitely fills a need.
Would you be willing to include support for aligned allocation? This is handled a little differently on each platform, and providing a nice, platform independent interface to it that "just works" would be quite useful.
For instance, if you see lines 12-43 in this file, you can see my own attempt at this. Frankly, I have no confidence that I've done this the right way. :-)
(I'm considering using cymem in the library linked to above. Intel's Embree library requires memory to be allocated with alignment.)
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honnibal commentedon Nov 25, 2020
Yes I'd be interested in that. We have support for changing the allocation function, so in theory aligned allocation shouldn't be so hard.
The problem I have with aligned allocation is I never feel like I've done it properly =/. So I've never really seen a big performance increase.
sampotter commentedon Nov 25, 2020
I don't have enough experience with it to know when exactly to expect a performance boost. You need to use it in order to take full advantage of SIMD vectorization. I understand your uncertainty... In my case, it's simply a requirement for using Embree---memory that the user allocates must be allocated with a specific alignment.
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polm commentedon Sep 19, 2021
Sorry for the very late reply here, but if you want to start work on a PR for this I think we'd be happy to look at it.