diff --git a/Eigen/src/Core/StableNorm.h b/Eigen/src/Core/StableNorm.h
index de84d81..711ee3f 100644
--- a/Eigen/src/Core/StableNorm.h
+++ b/Eigen/src/Core/StableNorm.h
@@ -48,34 +48,16 @@
 
 template <typename VectorType, typename RealScalar>
 void stable_norm_impl_inner_step(const VectorType& vec, RealScalar& ssq, RealScalar& scale, RealScalar& invScale) {
-  typedef typename VectorType::Scalar Scalar;
   const Index blockSize = 4096;
 
-  typedef typename internal::nested_eval<VectorType, 2>::type VectorTypeCopy;
-  typedef internal::remove_all_t<VectorTypeCopy> VectorTypeCopyClean;
-  const VectorTypeCopy copy(vec);
-
-  enum {
-    CanAlign =
-        ((int(VectorTypeCopyClean::Flags) & DirectAccessBit) ||
-         (int(internal::evaluator<VectorTypeCopyClean>::Alignment) > 0)  // FIXME Alignment)>0 might not be enough
-         ) &&
-        (blockSize * sizeof(Scalar) * 2 < EIGEN_STACK_ALLOCATION_LIMIT) &&
-        (EIGEN_MAX_STATIC_ALIGN_BYTES >
-         0)  // if we cannot allocate on the stack, then let's not bother about this optimization
-  };
-  typedef std::conditional_t<
-      CanAlign,
-      Ref<const Matrix<Scalar, Dynamic, 1, 0, blockSize, 1>, internal::evaluator<VectorTypeCopyClean>::Alignment>,
-      typename VectorTypeCopyClean::ConstSegmentReturnType>
-      SegmentWrapper;
   Index n = vec.size();
-
-  Index bi = internal::first_default_aligned(copy);
-  if (bi > 0) internal::stable_norm_kernel(copy.head(bi), ssq, scale, invScale);
-  for (; bi < n; bi += blockSize)
-    internal::stable_norm_kernel(SegmentWrapper(copy.segment(bi, numext::mini(blockSize, n - bi))), ssq, scale,
-                                 invScale);
+  Index blockEnd = numext::round_down(n, blockSize);
+  for (Index i = 0; i < blockEnd; i += blockSize) {
+    internal::stable_norm_kernel(vec.template segment<blockSize>(i), ssq, scale, invScale);
+  }
+  if (n > blockEnd) {
+    internal::stable_norm_kernel(vec.tail(n - blockEnd), ssq, scale, invScale);
+  }
 }
 
 template <typename VectorType>
@@ -85,8 +67,7 @@
   using std::sqrt;
 
   Index n = vec.size();
-
-  if (n == 1) return abs(vec.coeff(0));
+  if (EIGEN_PREDICT_FALSE(n == 1)) return abs(vec.coeff(0));
 
   typedef typename VectorType::RealScalar RealScalar;
   RealScalar scale(0);