resources, V8 no longer requires that strings are aligned if they are one-byte strings (string data must be immutable and that the data must be Latin-1 and not UTF-8, which would require special treatment internally in the engine and do not allow efficient indexing)
V8 3.20.9 enforces that external pointers are aligned on a two-byte boundary (cf. Tagged pointers, objects are always at least 4-byte aligned, and we can never have a pointer to the middle of an object in JavaScript) • (TODO) maybe zero-copy buffers?