Un-alignment in structures

[Eugene D. Brooks III]

> If you have to remove one millisecond from a tight loop that has to run
> in 50 milliseconds, you really should use assembly.

If you can possibly do it in assembly then an optimizing compiler that generates
good code can do it just as fast and you gain portability.  Surely you don't
reccomend assembly.

Was this posted on April 1 with the vectorizing C compiler news item?