[fpc-devel] Patch, font rendering on Arm-Linux devices.

[Luiz Americo Pereira Camara]

Yury Sidorov wrote:
> The patch removes packed record for some platforms.
> IMO packed can be removed for all platforms. It will gain some speed.

I'd like to understand more this issue.
Why are non packed records faster?
The difference occurs at memory allocation or at memory access?

Original (Delphi) VirtualTreeView uses packed record, and i'm 
considering removing in the LCL port.

Luiz