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jstimpfleyesterday at 10:01 PM1 replyview on HN

That's true, and that's why your typical string vector code has a prelude and a postlude to do the incomplete chunks at the ends. Between the ends, it's processing larger self-aligned chunks.


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simonasktoday at 8:26 AM

If you're aware of that technique, why were you asking about use cases for unaligned loads?

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