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Re:Stop Memsetting Structures by Gibbon1 on Saturday April 27, 2019 @06:57PM (#19768150)
> performance hit due to lack of alignment

This isn't true of modern processors.

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Re:Stop Memsetting Structures by jzwinck on Saturday April 27, 2019 @08:00PM (#19768465)
Sure you get free unaligned access for scalars on x86, but unaligned arrays are still trouble if you use SSE (which basically everyone does).
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