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### 3.1 Data Alignment

- SIMD alignment and fftw_malloc:
- Stack alignment on x86:

In order to get the best performance from FFTW, one needs to be somewhat aware of two problems related to data alignment on x86 (Pentia) architectures: alignment of allocated arrays (for use with SIMD acceleration), and alignment of the stack.