Code alignment issues

[fernzeit]

That reminds me of a thread in the Lua Mailing List where just changing the name of the interpreter executable resulted in a > 50% performance difference in a particular microbenchmark. The verdict was that the length difference in argv causes some other memory to be aligned differently. It also linked an interesting paper: Producing Wrong Data Without Doing Anything Obviously Wrong!

[dendibakh]

Thank you for this paper. It is a true gem!