Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Tue, 20 Mar 2001 18:25:30 -0700
From:      Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>
To:        "Michael C . Wu" <keichii@peorth.iteration.net>
Cc:        thinker <thinker@branda.to>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: /bin/ls mb patch again 
Message-ID:  <200103210125.f2L1PU919996@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 20 Mar 2001 02:36:58 CST." <20010320023657.B47174@peorth.iteration.net> 
References:  <20010320023657.B47174@peorth.iteration.net>  <20010320163153.A14341@hell.branda.to> 

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
In message <20010320023657.B47174@peorth.iteration.net> "Michael C . Wu" writes:
: Thinker thinks that memset() is too costly to use here
: to modify one or two bytes. I agreed with him in that
: filenames can't be that long to justify the memset()
: overhead.  However, with today's CPU power, I think
: memset()'s overhead will only be noticeable with a
: large directory filled with data.  Please tell Thinker
: what you think.

It is mostly a conceptual thing.  You are setting memory or copying
memory.  You should use the API for that rather than roll your own.

Warner

To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message




Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?200103210125.f2L1PU919996>