Setting the preferred function alignment to 16 for Cortex A53/A55 improves performance in a wide range of benchmarks. This brings it in line with the
Cortex-A53/A55 tuning that is used in GCC (gcc/config/aarch64/aarch64.c).
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Just for completeness, I checked that GCC indeed sets it 16, here:
Are we not adding tests for these kind of things?