# Ogre::AlignedMemory Class Reference
[Memory]

Class to provide aligned memory allocate functionality. More...

`#include <OgreAlignedAllocator.h>`

List of all members.

## Static Public Member Functions

static void * | allocate (size_t size, size_t alignment)
| Allocate memory with given alignment.
static void * | allocate (size_t size)
| Allocate memory with default platform dependent alignment.
static void | deallocate (void *p)
| Deallocate memory that allocated by this class.

## Detailed Description

Class to provide aligned memory allocate functionality.

Remarks:
  All SIMD processing are friendly with aligned memory, and some SIMD routines are designed for working with aligned memory only. If the data are intended to use SIMD processing, it's need to be aligned for better performance boost. In additional, most time cache boundary aligned data also lead to better performance even if didn't used SIMD processing. So this class provides a couple of functions for allocate aligned memory.

  Anyways, in general, you don't need to use this class directly, Ogre internally will take care with most SIMD and cache friendly optimisation if possible.

  This isn't a "one-step" optimisation, there are a lot of underlying work to achieve performance boost. If you didn't know what are you doing or what there are going, just ignore this class.

Note:
  This class intended to use by advanced user only.

Definition at line 63 of file OgreAlignedAllocator.h.

## Member Function Documentation

static void* Ogre::AlignedMemory::allocate | ( | size_t | size,
|  | size_t | alignment |
| ) |  |  | `[static]`

Allocate memory with given alignment.

Parameters:

  | size | The size of memory need to allocate.
  | alignment | The alignment of result pointer, must be power of two and in range [1, 128].

Returns:
  The allocated memory pointer.

  On failure, exception will be throw.

Referenced by Ogre::StdAlignedAllocPolicy< Alignment >::allocateBytes().

static void* Ogre::AlignedMemory::allocate | ( | size_t | size | ) | `[static]`

Allocate memory with default platform dependent alignment.

Remarks:
  The default alignment depend on target machine, this function guarantee aligned memory according with SIMD processing and cache boundary friendly.

Parameters:

  | size | The size of memory need to allocate.

Returns:
  The allocated memory pointer.

  On failure, exception will be throw.

static void Ogre::AlignedMemory::deallocate | ( | void * | p | ) | `[static]`

Deallocate memory that allocated by this class.

Parameters:

  | p | Pointer to the memory allocated by this class or NULL pointer.

  On NULL pointer, nothing happen.

The documentation for this class was generated from the following file:

- OgreAlignedAllocator.h

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