> Some architectures straight up do not allow unaligned reads and force the programmer to read two registers and then extract the unaligned data. That's largel

> Some architectures straight up do not allow unaligned reads and force the programmer to read two registers and then extract the unaligned data. That's largely obsolete for architectures that still get used now that individual transistors are cheap, since it turns out that it's much more efficient to do it in silicon, even if such accesses are pretty rare.