Interesting - I wasn't aware of this intrinsic! I'll make a note of
that one.
It might be useful to transform FillChar calls to the Default intrinsic
at the node level.
Gareth aka. Kit
On 19/04/2022 12:43, Stefan Glienke via fpc-devel wrote:
You are the expert but I am not sure how that can be the case given you only
need to zero a register and blast that into the record location opposed to
twice as many mov operations being generated that I have seen with the record
that Gareth originally posted.
On 19/04/2022 13:37 Sven Barth via fpc-devel <fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org>
wrote:
Stefan Glienke via fpc-devel <fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org> schrieb am Di.,
19. Apr. 2022, 12:38:
If you want to zero small records more efficiently it might be better using
Default(t) for that and looking at optimizing the code the compiler generates
for that as it seems it produces an empty temp variable which it assigns
instead of simply zeroing the record variable where default() is being assigned
to.
This was an explicit design choice I made, because it pays of as soon as a
second such assignment for the same type is made.
Regards,
Sven
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