By: Anon (no.delete@this.spam.com), February 23, 2021 3:05 am
Room: Moderated Discussions
anon2 (anon.delete@this.anon.com) on February 22, 2021 7:17 pm wrote:
> I don't think memcpy, memset instructions are bad per se, though I still don't understand
> the fascination with them, unless their proponents are going to move on to do-daxpy, route-ip-packet,
> gzip-memory, etc instructions when/if one day Intel's rep ; mov finally doesn't suck. But
> I digress, the point was not a totally open-ended "ISA does not matter".
memcpy is quite common, easy to implement in hardware and very inefficient to implement in software.
> I don't think memcpy, memset instructions are bad per se, though I still don't understand
> the fascination with them, unless their proponents are going to move on to do-daxpy, route-ip-packet,
> gzip-memory, etc instructions when/if one day Intel's rep ; mov finally doesn't suck. But
> I digress, the point was not a totally open-ended "ISA does not matter".
memcpy is quite common, easy to implement in hardware and very inefficient to implement in software.
