Use FFI for unaligned reads#235
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Closes #226.
The C code uses
memcpy, which operates at the byte level, so unaligned accesses are handled correctly.In my benchmark, the FFI variant is just slightly slower than using the unaligned primops. The
sizeOfcalls are simplified to constants.