Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: > Unaligned accesses are not a problem on x86(-64), but they will segfault (bus error, IIRC) on other architectures such as SPARC, unfortunately.
On x86(-64) this kills performance and makes the optimization be senseless. > FWIW, on x86/x64 gcc often generates identical code for x = y and memcpy(x, y, 8). The code can be identical, but the time will differ significantly for aligned and non-aligned data. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue16427> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
