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Subject: Re: Unaligned access trade-offs for SFrame FRE layout
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On Fri, Sep 12, 2025 at 10:34:42AM -0700, Indu Bhagat wrote:
Why on earth would you ever care about an "unaligned" access?  The ABI
requires you to support sny of it.

You might want it to be faster, but that is very very marginal no matter
what.


Segher