Antoine Pitrou added the comment:

> If a fast hash for bytes/memoryview is desirable, I can write a fast
> robust implementation for nonaligned data.  But this will be more
> cumbersome and a bit slower.

Unaligned accesses are not a problem on x86(-64), but they will segfault
(bus error, IIRC) on other architectures such as SPARC, unfortunately.

(blame RISC for being really too "simplified")

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