> >That said, I have a plan in mind to get a nice performance boost for
> palloc().
> >As a side effect, I will guarantee 8 byte alignment of pointers returned
> >from palloc().
> >
> Does this imply that more memory will be used that strictly necesary under
> linux?
>
> With regards from Maurice.
Actually, perhaps less memory, because malloc memory is not aligned on
double boundaries, but this is all still just conjecture.
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