Redis on the Raspberry Pi: Adventures in unaligned lands
I&#x27;m probably the only weirdo that thinks this, but if you support byte-addressing you&#x27;d better as well be happy with byte-alignment. Atomics being the only place where it&#x27;s reasonable to be different.<p>Which brings me to padding. I wonder what percentage of memory of the average 64-bit user&#x27;s system is padding? I&#x27;m afraid of the answer. The heroes of yesteryear could&#x27;ve coded miracles in the ignored spaces in our data.