Fully preposterous gate arranger

>  ... If you 
> wanted to push the clock frequency, and especially if you were going to 
> run multiple boards, then arranging things for best propagation delay 
> would get -- interesting.
> 

This reminds me of the odd shape of the Cray 1.  Effective, but probably a pain to assemble and debug.  I think the bus wires of the Cray were also cut to the same length to reduce skew.