1. A method for processing data sequences of arbitrary length in a computing system, the method comprising: initializing a load/store buffer by loading a first aligned word of fixed length into the load/store buffer; further initializing the load/store buffer by loading a second aligned word into the load/store buffer; reading one or more data sequences from the load/store buffer, such that the total length of the sequences in each read does not exceed the fixed length of the first aligned word; and loading additional aligned words to the load/store buffer to replace data sequences that are read.