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RE: MSN Profiles ARG!
quote:Originally posted by Patchou
which, btw, is more an old habbit than anything else.. it's completely useless with nowadays compilers
yep, but however it's better to use those values to help the compiler reduce the memory fragmentation (<- huh?) I mean alignment issues (and yes, I know processors can acccess unaligned variables)
The other reason is Cookie's one: database preformance and the not a "write_a_long_poem_in_here"-field ()
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(and yes, I know processors can acccess unaligned variables)
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