On Wed, 6 Oct 2010 08:28:37 -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote: > Access to 32 bit variables is a bit faster on many CPUs, due to the bit masking > required otherwise. Oh, and for completeness: more compact structures are better for L1 caching. This can easily compensate for the extra CPU operations required to access individual fields. -- Jean Delvare _______________________________________________ lm-sensors mailing list lm-sensors@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.lm-sensors.org/mailman/listinfo/lm-sensors