[GENERAL] Is float8 a reference type?

The docs say that a Datum can be 4 bytes or 8 depending on the machine:

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.5/static/sql-createtype.html

Is a Datum always 8 bytes for 64-bit architectures?

And if so, can my C extension skip a loop like this when compiling
there, and just do a memcpy (or even a cast)?:
   float8 *floats;   Datum *datums;
   datums = palloc(arrlen * sizeof(Datum));   for (i = 0; i < arrlen; i++) {     datums[i] = Float8GetDatum(floats[i]);
 }
 

Thanks!
Paul


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