Make Simd::to_array impls a simple transmute
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As noted in various parts of the Rust docs (eg. docs for `__m256i`) the SIMD types have the same layout as `[T; N]` but may have greater alignment. Hence converting from SIMD to array is just a transmute.
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As noted in various parts of the Rust docs (eg. docs for
__m256i) the SIMD types have the same layout as[T; N]but may have greater alignment. Hence converting from SIMD to array requires just a transmute (but the converse is not true).