Re: x86-64: memset()/memcpy() not fully standards compliant

[Ingo Molnar]

* Andi Kleen <andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> You would slow a critical fast path operation down for 
> something that never happens?!?  There were big differences 
> between strings and the unrolled loop for several.

AFAICS Jan's approach speeds up memset(), so what you say is 
100% pure nonsense.

Thanks,

	Ingo
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