For unpacked structures (passed by value and reference), the code
quality of GCC-2.7 (on x86) for each alternative was compared.
- Needless to say the results, while better then for a packed 64 bit
+ Needless to say the results, while better than for a packed 64 bit
object, were still poor (GCC had only limited support for the
optimization of references to structure members). Regardless, the
struct-by-ref alternative achieved better results when compiled