[Issue 10226] core.simd bad codegen

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--- Comment #5 from bearophile_hugs at eml.cc 2013-06-03 09:46:24 PDT ---
(In reply to comment #3)

> On modern processors unaligned loads come at almost no penalty, and it is a lot
> easier to use unaligned loads within a highly optimized functions compared to
> making all the data in the whole project 16 byte aligned and use aligned loads.

If this is true then is it worth reducing the smallest allocation size of the D
garbage collector from 16 bytes to 8 bytes and reduce the alignment to 8 bytes?
This saves some memory when you allocate many small objects, like small tree
nodes.

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