SIMD/SSE support & alignment

[Johan Tibell]

On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 8:14 AM, Geoffrey Mainland <mainland at apeiron.net>wrote:

> So you are suggesting that if the inliner doesn't happen to expose the
> argument statically, then we should fall back to unaligned SSE move
> instructions?
>

I'm not necessarily suggesting anything. :) I'm just saying that there's a
way to support both align and unaligned versions using one primop. We might
still have to expose two versions to users (wrapping the primop) in case we
don't believe the compiler will recover the alignment.
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