From:	alainm AT news DOT RISQ DOT QC DOT CA (Alain Magloire)
Subject:	Re: strset function
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Nate Eldredge (neldredge AT hmc DOT edu) wrote:
: alainm AT news DOT mcgill DOT ca (Alain Magloire) writes:

: > Malcolm (donald DOT mcleanNOdoSPAM AT talk21 DOT com DOT invalid) wrote:
: > : What does strset do ? I imagine it sets a string to all one
: > : character. This is easy to code
: >
: > Then, in that case you are better off with memset() which on most
: > OS/libc coded in assembly for speed.

: Not necessarily-- if you don't know the length of the string, you'd
: have to do `memset(s, 'X', strlen(s))', which requires making two
: passes over the string and could end up being slower.

Hum .. I don't want to get involve in that sort of overkill optimization.
I have no idea what strset() is , my point was just to prefer
mem*() API when possible.

Donald Knuth said :
"Premature Optimization is the Root of All Evil."

Thinking you'll get a noticable gain by rewritten parts of lib C funtions
on modern CPU, is misleading.  Especially for simple things like
the above.

Of Couse my 0.02$ Canadian 
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au revoir, alain
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