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by flohofwoe 326 days ago
Daniel Lemire did some measuring ~~recently~~ (oops, in 2012):

https://lemire.me/blog/2012/05/31/data-alignment-for-speed-m...

TL;DR: 10% difference on what in 2012 was a low-end CPU, no difference on "new in 2012" CPUs. So my guess is that by now it really doesn't matter anymore :)

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Wasn't aware of that, thanks for the link!