Re: [coreboot] [PATCH] Add VIA VT8237S support

[ron minnich]

On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 1:37 PM, Stefan Reinauer  wrote:
> Just curious:
> Why would you say packed is asking for trouble?

it's actually burned me in the past, but I am fine with it when
needed. It's not needed for sysinfo for example. Some of our uses seem
gratuitous.

There are cases where people  naively used packed and ended up slowing
down the programs by several orders of magnitude (on alpha for
example).

The Xen guys used it at first and then removed it. It's worth avoiding
if you can.

ron