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Message: [QUOTE="JohnQ, post: 2994735"] [...] "They have their acts together. It's you that don't seem to understand." I won't be buying that Brooklyn bridge either, thank you. "And pay an extremely high performance penalty for it." You're assuming that byte-aligning struct members implies non-optimum alignment. That's a wrong assumption. And perhaps you're thinking that everything has to be byte-aligned or not, which isn't the case either. "More than a few applications can't afford that." There is no penalty if you define your stucts correctly so that the data members align. Secondly, the vast majority of applications are not performance constrained. Indeed, they are IO constrained if anything, so not having to marshal will speed up the program (on the "native" platform). John [/QUOTE]