source: downloads/ogre_src_v1-9-0/OgreMain/include/OgreAlignedAllocator.h @ 148

/*
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
This source file is part of OGRE
    (Object-oriented Graphics Rendering Engine)
For the latest info, see http://www.ogre3d.org/

Copyright (c) 2000-2013 Torus Knot Software Ltd

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN
THE SOFTWARE.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
*/
#ifndef __AlignedAllocator_H__
#define __AlignedAllocator_H__

// Now we're only including this within OgreMemoryAllocatorConfig.h which is already in
// the prerequisites header (circlar reference)
//#include "OgrePrerequisites.h"

namespace Ogre {

        /** \addtogroup Core
        *  @{
        */

        /** \addtogroup Memory
        *  @{
        */

        /** 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.
    @par
        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.
    @par
        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.
    */
        class _OgreExport AlignedMemory
        {
        public:
        /** Allocate memory with given alignment.
            @param
                size The size of memory need to allocate.
            @param
                alignment The alignment of result pointer, must be power of two
                and in range [1, 128].
            @return
                The allocated memory pointer.
            @par
                On failure, exception will be throw.
        */
        static void* allocate(size_t size, size_t alignment);

        /** 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.
            @param
                size The size of memory need to allocate.
            @return
                The allocated memory pointer.
            @par
                On failure, exception will be throw.
        */
        static void* allocate(size_t size);

        /** Deallocate memory that allocated by this class.
            @param
                p Pointer to the memory allocated by this class or <b>NULL</b> pointer.
            @par
                On <b>NULL</b> pointer, nothing happen.
        */
        static void deallocate(void* p);
        };

        /** @} */
        /** @} */

}

#endif  // __AlignedAllocator_H__