[lm-sensors] [PATCH v2 1/3] hwmon: (lm90) Introduce chip parameter structure

[Jean Delvare]

On Wed, 6 Oct 2010 08:28:37 -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> Access to 32 bit variables is a bit faster on many CPUs, due to the bit masking
> required otherwise.

Oh, and for completeness: more compact structures are better for
L1 caching. This can easily compensate for the extra CPU operations
required to access individual fields.


-- 
Jean Delvare