Aligned/Unaligned meory access

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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And if you use ARM, you're a moron.

...or MIPS, or SPARC, or PowerPC in little endian mode, or...

The only languages where you need to think about alignment are C/C++, and there only when you're casting pointers. If you can't remember that then you are indeed a moron.