New developments on topic of memset, memcpy and similar

Igor stojkovic.igor at gmail.com
Sat Nov 27 13:41:30 UTC 2021


On Saturday, 27 November 2021 at 11:48:02 UTC, Imperatorn wrote:
> On Saturday, 27 November 2021 at 11:15:45 UTC, Igor wrote:
>> Two years ago there was a [Google Summer of Code 
>> project](https://forum.dlang.org/thread/izaufklyvmktnwsrmhci@forum.dlang.org) to implement these primitives in pure D for various reason. It was concluded the project isn't viable and was abandoned, but there were some interesting learnings. I now stumbled on some new work in C land about these that might be interesting to people that were following the original project so I am sharing it here:
>>
>> Custom ASM implementation that outperforms libc: 
>> https://github.com/nadavrot/memset_benchmark
>> Paper on automatic implementation of these primitives: 
>> https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3459898.3463904
>
> Haven't read yet, but how did they make it portable?

Regarding custom ASM implementation I think it is only for X64 
platform.


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