diff --git a/simdnbt/README.md b/simdnbt/README.md
index c5104bf..b1e8d79 100644
--- a/simdnbt/README.md
+++ b/simdnbt/README.md
@@ -90,9 +90,9 @@ And for writing `complex_player.dat`:
 
 | Library         | Throughput   |
 | --------------- | ------------ |
-| simdnbt::borrow | 2.4670 GiB/s |
+| simdnbt::borrow | 2.6116 GiB/s |
+| simdnbt::owned  | 2.5033 GiB/s |
 | azalea_nbt      | 2.4152 GiB/s |
-| simdnbt::owned  | 1.9660 GiB/s |
 | graphite_binary | 1.8804 GiB/s |
 
 The tables above were made from the [compare benchmark](https://github.com/azalea-rs/simdnbt/tree/master/simdnbt/benches) in this repo.
diff --git a/simdnbt/src/owned/mod.rs b/simdnbt/src/owned/mod.rs
index d7760b9..42a0960 100644
--- a/simdnbt/src/owned/mod.rs
+++ b/simdnbt/src/owned/mod.rs
@@ -279,6 +279,7 @@ impl NbtTag {
     ///
     /// This function is unsafe because it doesn't check that there's enough space in the data.
     /// 4 bytes MUST be reserved before calling this function.
+    #[inline]
     unsafe fn unchecked_write_without_tag_type(&self, data: &mut Vec<u8>) {
         match self {
             NbtTag::Byte(byte) => unsafe {