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by account42 5 days ago
If the array is dynamically allocated on its own, you will likely get a whole page from any decent allocator. If it is statically allocated the compiler can at least theoretically optimize the alignment. If its allocated as part of a larger struct then yes its up to you.

Even if it is not aligned, an unaligned 8K array would be spread to three pages which is still worse than two.