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> For starters, not all hardware platforms allow unaligned accesses at all. Yeah and always everywhere a mistake. It was a mistake back in the 1970's and it's
by Gibbon1 3y ago
> For starters, not all hardware platforms allow unaligned accesses at all.
Yeah and always everywhere a mistake. It was a mistake back in the 1970's and it's increasing bigger mistake as time goes on. Just like big endian and 'network order'
- saagarjha 3y agoNot really. They’re quite convenient in many cases, and can actually be more efficient than carefully preparing aligned loads/stores.