Vectorization examples

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On Monday, 20 April 2015 at 09:41:09 UTC, bearophile wrote:
> "Utilizing the other 80% of your system's performance: Starting 
> with Vectorization" by Ulrich Drepper:
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXPfE2jGqg0
>
> It shows two still missing parts of the D type system: a way to 
> define strongly typed byte alignments for arrays (something 
> better than the aligned() shown here, because I prefer the 
> alignment to be part of the type), and a way to tell the type 
> system that some array slices are fully distinct (the 
> __restrict seen here, I think this information doesn't need to 
> be part of a type).
>
> Bye,
> bearophile

Aren't unaligned loads as fast as aligned loads on modern x86?