Getting rid of padding bytes would be great were it not for the number of processor families that _require_ multi-byte types to be aligned in some way. Even pro

Getting rid of padding bytes would be great were it not for the number of processor families that _require_ multi-byte types to be aligned in some way. Even processors that don't require alignment tend to perform better with alignment. I'm not saying that we can't work around alignment issues _and_ get rid of padding bytes, but it's not a simple "oh just do this" as the article seems to imply.