If you don't dereference the char* it will get treated an an integer and be vectorizable. In C++ you don't pay for what you don't use. If you need the char* in

If you don't dereference the char* it will get treated an an integer and be vectorizable. In C++ you don't pay for what you don't use. If you need the char* in the loop I'm not sure why you'd be thinking about vectorization. Maybe you meant parallelism?