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Code Alignment: <br/>
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        <li>functions are generally aligned on 16 byte boundaries, so that
        upon function re-entrance a cache line can directly feed the pipeline.
        Pre-Fetch cache line size is about 16 bytes (or 32, etc) so the default
        is generally 16.
	<ul>
                <li>you would think that this is simple, but YOU WOULD BE WRONG,
                IE trace L1 cache on a pentium4
	</ul>
        <li> NOPS are used for some strange reason that may have more to do with the
        linker than anything else, but that's hard to say without any specific
        documentation to reference.
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