RFC: std.uuid

Vladimir Panteleev vladimir at thecybershadow.net
Sat Dec 24 18:03:21 PST 2011


On Sunday, 25 December 2011 at 01:08:04 UTC, Piotr Szturmaj wrote:
>> Where does your code use memcpy? I see one mention in the 
>> comments, but
>> none in the code.
>
> See putArray() in base.d

Sorry, I lost track of the conversation. I was looking at uuid.d.

>> Anyway, I believe you can do without memcpy by using array 
>> copy? Array
>> copy might even be faster, since memcpy is not a DMD compiler 
>> intrinsic
>> like in many C/C++ compilers.
>
> I converted memcpy calls to array copy but it become about 1 
> Mbps slower.

I guess array copy is currently a runtime call rather than an 
intrinsic, then...


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