Charles-François Natali added the comment: > Seriously, nobody gives a ... about SPARC and MIPS. :) It's nice that > Python still works on these CPU architectures. But I neither want to > deviate from the SipHash24 implementation nor make the code slower on > all relevant platforms such as X86 and X86_64.
Well, unaligned memory access is usually slower on all architectures :-) Also, I think some ARM architectures don't support unaligned access, so it's not really a thing of the past... ---------- nosy: +neologix _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue19183> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com