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by kajiryoji 970 days ago
Haha that'd be a little counterintuitive given all 32-bit aligned is the trivial case for decoding variable length instructions, unless you're thinking about prefetching/branch prediction etc
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> all 32-bit aligned is the trivial case for decoding variable length instructions

That's the point? You can go faster if everything is 32-bit aligned, i.e. you don't have variable length instructions.