It'd likely be faster in isolation - especially if they're also 16B-aligned.
If they're not aligned, the loss of cache locality due to bigger strings might become an issue. I don't know what the data access patterns here are, or any of the patterns actually.
Hot-Employ-3399@reddit
If you pad key to by 16 bytes long to avoid special tail handling will it be faster or slower?
Ameisen@reddit
It'd likely be faster in isolation - especially if they're also 16B-aligned.
If they're not aligned, the loss of cache locality due to bigger strings might become an issue. I don't know what the data access patterns here are, or any of the patterns actually.
pseudocharleskk@reddit (OP)
That’s a good point, I might try that.