Article: The Lost Art of Structure Packing

[Walter Bright]

On 11/1/2026 4:29 PM, 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/

Yes, it's pretty straightforward. D matches the way the corresponding C compiler 
lays things out.

The next step is to group together fields that are temporally accessed together, 
because of memory caching.