From: "Michael Stewart" <mike AT reggin DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
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Subject: Re: HELP!! need fast initialisation-function for virtual-buffer!
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1999 18:07:59 -0000
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Spike wrote in message <01be6a45$db03ce60$9fab9bc1 AT default>...
>Hi!
>
>I use a virtual-buffer and I need to set it to zero very often. So I need a
>function that sets this buffer to zero for 640*480 times. (It is 640*480
>bytes large [my screen]).
>
>I use memset(buffer, 0, 640*480) but it's quite slow.


This will be the fastest method
memset (buffer, 0, 307200);


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