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From: Rich Felker <dalias@aerifal.cx>
To: musl@lists.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Thinking about release
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2013 00:33:48 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130711043348.GM29800@brightrain.aerifal.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAL3m8eA-D==UjssLjxbFNpisQM=xaTo=KQHRmzcp1S-=XOnfOw@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 11:30:47PM -0500, Strake wrote:
> On 09/07/2013, Andre Renaud <andre@bluewatersys.com> wrote:
> > I wasn't too sure on memmove, but I've seen a reasonable amount of
> > code which just uses memmove as standard (rather than memcpy), to
> > avoid the possibility of overlapping regions. Not a great policy
> 
> Why? What loss with memmove? That it takes 1.0125 times as long as
> memcpy, other than when memcpy might just trash the array or summon
> nasal demons anyhow?

If you're performing a copy between objects that overlap, or if you're
not sure whether you might be, then it's very likely that you'd doing
something wrong. Or at least that's my opinion.

Anyway I have no objection to an optimized memmove, but I do think
starting with just memcpy is easier for review and
cleanup/optimization.

Rich


  reply	other threads:[~2013-07-11  4:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-06-13  1:25 Rich Felker
2013-06-13  1:33 ` Andre Renaud
2013-06-13  1:43   ` Rich Felker
2013-07-09  5:06     ` Andre Renaud
2013-07-09  5:37       ` Rich Felker
2013-07-09  6:24         ` Harald Becker
2013-07-09 21:28         ` Andre Renaud
2013-07-09 22:26           ` Andre Renaud
2013-07-10  6:42             ` Jens Gustedt
2013-07-10  7:50               ` Rich Felker
2013-07-10 22:44             ` Andre Renaud
2013-07-11  3:37               ` Rich Felker
2013-07-11  4:04                 ` Andre Renaud
2013-07-11  5:10                   ` Andre Renaud
2013-07-11 12:46                     ` Rich Felker
2013-07-11 22:34                       ` Andre Renaud
2013-07-12  3:16                         ` Rich Felker
2013-07-12  3:36                           ` Andre Renaud
2013-07-12  4:16                             ` Rich Felker
2013-07-24  1:34                               ` Andre Renaud
2013-07-24  3:48                                 ` Rich Felker
2013-07-24  4:40                                   ` Andre Renaud
2013-07-28  8:09                                     ` Rich Felker
2013-07-11  5:27                 ` Daniel Cegiełka
2013-07-11 12:49                   ` Rich Felker
2013-07-15  4:25                 ` Rob Landley
2013-07-10 19:42           ` Rich Felker
2013-07-14  6:37             ` Rob Landley
2013-07-11  4:30           ` Strake
2013-07-11  4:33             ` Rich Felker [this message]
2013-07-10 19:38         ` Rob Landley
2013-07-10 20:34           ` Andre Renaud
2013-07-10 20:49             ` Nathan McSween
2013-07-10 21:01             ` Rich Felker
2013-06-13 15:46 ` Isaac
2013-06-26  1:44 ` Rich Felker
2013-06-26 10:19   ` Szabolcs Nagy
2013-06-26 14:21     ` Rich Felker

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