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From: tmoran@acm.org
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Subject: Re: Efficient Sequential Access to Arrays
Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2012 21:05:05 +0000 (UTC)
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> as the use of Indexes was too slow. An example of this is lets say we are a=
> ccessing element 5 from array A "A(5)" this requires a multiplication to ac=
> cess (base_address + index * record_size). To access the neighbour A(6) als=
  Can you reasonably pad the element size to a power of two so the
multiplication can be replaced by a shift?  It would be interesting to see
the result, in various hardware contexts.