Re: drastic slowdown for copies

[Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d-learn]

16 bytes is 64 bit - the same size as a reference. So copying it 
is overall a bit less work - sending a 64 bit struct is as small 
as a 64 bit reference and you don't go through the pointer.

So up to them, it is a bit faster.

Add another byte and now the copy is too big to fit in a 
register, so it needs to spill over into somewhere else which 
means a bunch more work for the cpu.