[OSC_dev] OSC Questions regarding Protocol

[Angelo Fraietta]

Christopher Graham wrote:
>  > OSC avoids the end-to-end principle by design.
>  >
>  > For efficiency discussions also note that OSC generally assumes
>  > a 32-
>  > bit architecture, thus the 4-byte alignment saves instruction
>  > cycles 
>  > and costs no additional memory.  

The no memory argument is only valid assuming the compiler uses a 4 byte 
struct alignment, however, if using byte aligned structs, as one tends 
to do in embedded systems, it does.

As for the machine cycles, have there been conclusive tests to show that 
the instructions saved by optimising this way more than compensates for 
the extra instructions used to pad the data?

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