Article: The Lost Art of Structure Packing

[Lance Bachmeier]

On Monday, 2 November 2026 at 00:29:56 UTC, Richard (Rikki) 
Andrew Cattermole wrote:
> I found this rather nice article about padding in structs, it 
> also applies to D.
>
> http://www.catb.org/esr/structure-packing/

Thanks for the reference. Claude recently used padding to 
increase my parallel random number generation speedup on 16 
processes from 4x to 11x when using std.parallelism. I was 
unaware that it could be so powerful. The article may provide 
some insight.