Reply to Andrei, > BCS wrote: > >> would "align 1" work? >> > That could make things excruciatingly slow. What's really needed is > (in first approximation) to sort the members in decreasing order of > size. Odd-sized arrays of char foil this plan to some extent, which is > where the fun begins. > > Andrei > ?? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bin_packing_problem