> There's essentially no reason to prefer the aligned load/store commands over the unaligned ones - if the actual pointer is unaligned it will function correctly at half the throughput
Getting a fault instead of half the performance is actually a really good reason to prefer aligned load/store. To be fair, you're talking about a compiler here, but I never understood why people use the unaligned intrinsics...
Getting a fault instead of half the performance is actually a really good reason to prefer aligned load/store. To be fair, you're talking about a compiler here, but I never understood why people use the unaligned intrinsics...