Re: New developments on topic of memset, memcpy and similar
On Saturday, 27 November 2021 at 11:48:02 UTC, Imperatorn wrote: On Saturday, 27 November 2021 at 11:15:45 UTC, Igor wrote: Two years ago there was a [Google Summer of Code project](https://forum.dlang.org/thread/izaufklyvmktnwsrm...@forum.dlang.org) to implement these primitives in pure D for various reason. It was concluded the project isn't viable and was abandoned, but there were some interesting learnings. I now stumbled on some new work in C land about these that might be interesting to people that were following the original project so I am sharing it here: Custom ASM implementation that outperforms libc: https://github.com/nadavrot/memset_benchmark Paper on automatic implementation of these primitives: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3459898.3463904 Haven't read yet, but how did they make it portable? Regarding custom ASM implementation I think it is only for X64 platform.
Re: New developments on topic of memset, memcpy and similar
On Saturday, 27 November 2021 at 11:15:45 UTC, Igor wrote: Additionally, here is the twitter thread from the author: https://twitter.com/nadavrot/status/1464364562409422852
Re: New developments on topic of memset, memcpy and similar
On Saturday, 27 November 2021 at 11:15:45 UTC, Igor wrote: Two years ago there was a [Google Summer of Code project](https://forum.dlang.org/thread/izaufklyvmktnwsrm...@forum.dlang.org) to implement these primitives in pure D for various reason. It was concluded the project isn't viable and was abandoned, but there were some interesting learnings. I now stumbled on some new work in C land about these that might be interesting to people that were following the original project so I am sharing it here: Custom ASM implementation that outperforms libc: https://github.com/nadavrot/memset_benchmark Paper on automatic implementation of these primitives: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3459898.3463904 Also LLVM has intrinsics or special instructions for those libc stuff. I suppose that there are special optimz that are tried and if not possible that falls back to the libc version.
Re: New developments on topic of memset, memcpy and similar
On Saturday, 27 November 2021 at 11:15:45 UTC, Igor wrote: Two years ago there was a [Google Summer of Code project](https://forum.dlang.org/thread/izaufklyvmktnwsrm...@forum.dlang.org) to implement these primitives in pure D for various reason. It was concluded the project isn't viable and was abandoned, but there were some interesting learnings. I now stumbled on some new work in C land about these that might be interesting to people that were following the original project so I am sharing it here: Custom ASM implementation that outperforms libc: https://github.com/nadavrot/memset_benchmark Paper on automatic implementation of these primitives: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3459898.3463904 Haven't read yet, but how did they make it portable?
New developments on topic of memset, memcpy and similar
Two years ago there was a [Google Summer of Code project](https://forum.dlang.org/thread/izaufklyvmktnwsrm...@forum.dlang.org) to implement these primitives in pure D for various reason. It was concluded the project isn't viable and was abandoned, but there were some interesting learnings. I now stumbled on some new work in C land about these that might be interesting to people that were following the original project so I am sharing it here: Custom ASM implementation that outperforms libc: https://github.com/nadavrot/memset_benchmark Paper on automatic implementation of these primitives: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3459898.3463904
