> On Apr 1, 2017, at 9:25 PM, Jürgen Hestermann <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> If you just need to reuse the same array and only need to zero its elements
> then of course fillchar would be the fastest approach (it saves the memory
> reallocation step).
Why is this “of course”? What’s the implementation of FillChar exactly? For all
I know it has to iterate over a range of bytes and this could be slower than
allocation of memory. Maybe some of the compiler people know these details.
Regards,
Ryan Joseph
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