1. Data stored in memory at addresses that are not aligned to natural word boundaries, requiring special handling by the processor
Accessing unaligned data can significantly impact performance on systems with strict alignment requirements.
O acesso a dados não alinhados pode impactar significativamente o desempenho em sistemas com requisitos rigorosos de alinhamento.
2. Information that does not conform to expected data structure boundaries or memory alignment conventions
The processor had to perform multiple memory cycles to fetch the unaligned data.
O processador teve que realizar vários ciclos de memória para buscar os dados não alinhados.