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0 pointsjstimpfle1mo ago0 comments

Where is the part about unaligned pointers?

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simonask1mo ago· 2 in thread

Strings typically consist of UTF-8 bytes, and any old `char*` pair has no alignment guarantees.

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.

simonask1mo ago

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

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