Comment by dzaima
2 months ago
Indeed we shall hope heuristics update; but of course if no compilers emit it hardware has no reason to actually bother making fast misaligned ops, so it's primed for going wrong.
2 months ago
Indeed we shall hope heuristics update; but of course if no compilers emit it hardware has no reason to actually bother making fast misaligned ops, so it's primed for going wrong.
hardware devs traditionally have been pretty good at helping the compiler teams with things like this (because its a lot cheaper to improve the compiler than your chip).