Of possible interest: fast UTF8 validation

[rikki cattermole]

On 17/05/2018 8:34 AM, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 5/16/2018 10:28 AM, Ethan wrote:
>> (Related: one feature I'd really really really love for linkers to 
>> implement is the ability to mark up certain functions to only ever be 
>> linked at a certain byte boundary. And that's purely because Jaguar 
>> branch prediction often made my profiling tests non-deterministic 
>> between compiles. A NOP is a legit optimisation on those processors.)
> 
> Linkers already do that. Alignment is specified on all symbols emitted 
> by the compiler, and the linker uses that info.

Would allowing align attribute on functions, make sense here for Ethan?