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fickle dagger Jan 7, 2025, 6:46 PM

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I'm writing a class to contain serialized data structures (any type, assume already serialized into byte arrays), and I am unsure as to whether or not I need to worry about memory packing, padding, page alignment, and other such optimizations. I'm considering going through with it. It's for inter-thread comms and possibly file data serialization.

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rare condor Jan 7, 2025, 10:16 PM

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Hi! Yes, in the general case, you should be concerned about memory packing. You can start by reading https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endianness.

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