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Re:Stop Memsetting Structures by rurban on Sunday April 28, 2019 @06:52AM (#19770416)
I don't trust any memset at all. Literally every single memset I looked at was either broken, too slow or insecure. Mostly the wellknown glibc, freebsd, msvcrt and compiler implementations.
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Re:Stop Memsetting Structures by rmtgk on Sunday April 28, 2019 @07:09AM (#19770474)
That's quite a bold claim. Care to explain further?
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Re:Stop Memsetting Structures by rurban on Sunday April 28, 2019 @02:36PM (#19772816)
I already explained it. Noone implements memory barriers in its safe variants, only compiler barriers. And the trivial variants work byte-wise, not word-wise, which is usually 8x slower.
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