Re:A 100LOC C impl of memset, that is faster than glibc's
by bitwize on Friday November 12, 2021 @01:48PM
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> There's no standard C function for this. My colleague came up with the following nice trick.
One of the big things about C is that there is no standard library function for anything remotely nontrivial. So successfully coding in C relies on "tricks", and snippets and lore that have been passed on over the years.
Rust, meanwhile, has a check_for_all_zeroes crate or something.
One of the big things about C is that there is no standard library function for anything remotely nontrivial. So successfully coding in C relies on "tricks", and snippets and lore that have been passed on over the years.
Rust, meanwhile, has a check_for_all_zeroes crate or something.