Robert Hancock <[email protected]> writes:
>
> Also, x86 doesn't prohibit unaligned accesses,
That depends, e.g. for SSE2 they can be forbidden.
> but I believe they have
> a significant performance cost and are best avoided where possible.
On Opteron the typical cost of a misaligned access is a single cycle
and some possible penalty to load-store forwarding.
On Intel it is a bit worse, but not all that much. Unless you do
a lot of accesses of it in a loop it's not really worth something
caring about too much.
-Andi
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