[tremor] Ogg/Vorbis report, FFT optimizations

[timmy brolin]

>> On x86 you'll get a speed-penalty for misaligned accesses.
>
> Not on the implementations I used...  But that is _long_ ago.

Of course you get a speed penalty. Consider a misaligned 32bit read from a memory with a 32bit databus. Two 32bit read cycles must be performed from the memory in order to piece together the misaligned 32bit word.

/Timmy

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