[CST-2] Comp Arch

Martin Harper mcnh2@cam.ac.uk
Thu, 24 May 2001 08:38:49 +0100


Phebe Mann wrote:

> 96/8/4
> Why might a C compiler place a string literal on a word boundary when it
> only needs to be byte aligned ?

Unaligned Loads and Stores are slow, compared to aligned stores.

> What is the epithet RISC ?

Reduced Instruction Set Computer (or Computing)