how to get the unaligned version to work?

[lemire]

how to get the unaligned version to work?

[lemire]

@vadali

Yes, I agree that alignment should not matter much as far as performance is concerned. If someone has a machine where unaligned accesses are much slower, they should probably upgrade at this point.

Would you be willing to issue a PR? It is a simple matter of replacing all the load by loadu (or _mm_lddqu_si128) and store by storeu. One can do it with search and replace in seconds... the hard part is checking the everything still makes sense (and there are places where we might check for alignments, these checks need to be removed).

[shlomiv]

@lemire
Sure, I already made the change you mentioned and tested it using testcodecs, which seemed to work just fine.

Before I issue a PR Ill turn this change into a macro, so it could be reverted by a simple #define, unless you think its unneeded.

[lemire]

@vadali A macro would be fine.