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Re:The Lost Art of Structure Packing (2018) by saagarjha on Monday April 27, 2020 @09:45PM (#23002432)
sloooooooooooooooow. No, really, do you want a full flush every time you do a memset? That would be horrendous for performance.
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Re:The Lost Art of Structure Packing (2018) by kazinator on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @06:03PM (#23012681)
"And second the secure variant should flush ..."

Probably means the extra-secure variant, more secure than the regular non-optimized-away memset that really clears the memory, but without the flush.

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Re:The Lost Art of Structure Packing (2018) by saagarjha on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @08:19PM (#23013785)
Yeah, that's a more reasonable interpretation.
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