Why do people on stackoverflow lie that unaligned accesses are slow? It was true in 90ies, when 486 was young. But modern CPUs have caches, so unaligned access won't produce more than one loads or stores. And if you use ARM, you're a moron.
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Anonymous2014-05-31 9:42
>>9 Because it's become the industry standard and for compatibility reasons it would cost more to modernize it than to keep using it. What I'm wondering is why they plan on pushing it to a whole new market when they could start with a fresh new better architecture.