Re: Alignment of dynamic arrays

[Luc Bourhis via Digitalmars-d]

Keeping alignment when slicing is easy since it matches the size 
of the xmm registers: one has to partition the array by blocks of 
2 doubles, 4 floats, etc. For AVX, the ideal alignment is on 
32-byte boundaries but the really bad performance hit happens 
only when an unaligned access crosses a cacheline boundary. With 
SSE2, this concerns every single access.