Bit Addressable Architectures

[Brian Case]

In article <7374 at sol.ARPA> crowl at cs.rochester.edu (Lawrence Crowl) writes:
>In article <1988Mar3.182645.703 at utzoo.uucp> henry at utzoo.uucp
>(Henry Spencer) writes:
>It seems to me that aligned access to all items larger than a bit would allow
>a bit addressable machine to be every bit as fast as a byte or word addressable
>machine.  Am I missing something?

Yes, the alignment network is always there whether an instruction uses it or
not.