On 3/27/06, Alexei Alexandrov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Isn't this eliminated with the proper compile settings for data packing? > > There should be a compile option for sometihng like 'align data on N > > byte boundaries' > > > > Even if that is possible, I don't want to say to compiler "Please > align everything on 16 bytes" because this will lead to huge memory > footprint overhead - every element - even 1 byte-long will take 16 > bytes in memory. This is not an option.
The compiler I used was smarter than that in the 1980's...