malc writes:
 > To get maximal speed of the inner loops data needs to be naturally 
 > aligned. OCaml does nothing to enforce it for non-big arrays. Bigarrays on 
 > the other hand are mmaped(4k on IA32) and you get perfectly aligned data 
 > for free. I was thinking that maybe Array can be extended with
 > make[create]_aligned, for speed/space tradeoff.

I did this once to be able to interface with Fortran libs on Sparc32,
and I still have a patch (against ocaml-2.01) lying around.  It was
actually quite thoroughly tested, but it's probably not very tidy.  The
main gotcha iirc was getting output_value/input_value to preserve
alignment :).
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