https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18943
Issue ID: 18943 Summary: core.internal.hash remove outdated special case for DMD unaligned reads Product: D Version: D2 Hardware: x86 OS: All Status: NEW Severity: enhancement Priority: P1 Component: druntime Assignee: nob...@puremagic.com Reporter: n8sh.second...@hotmail.com core.internal.hash has lines dating back to its initial commit on November 16, 2013 that disable unaligned reads when using DMD comment that a DMD bug would prevent inlining. That is not true in the present day so the comment and alternative code branch have no purpose except to confuse. With optimization enabled DMD produces the same code for `return *cast(uint*)x;` and `return ((cast(uint) x[3]) << 24) | ((cast(uint) x[2]) << 16) | ((cast(uint) x[1]) << 8) | (cast(uint) x[0]);` when `x` is `ubyte*`, so this patch is not expected to improve performance except for non-optimized builds. --