[fpc-devel] Thoughts: Make FillChar etc. an intrinsic for specialised performance potential

[Sven Barth]

Benito van der Zander via fpc-devel <fpc-devel at lists.freepascal.org>
schrieb am Sa., 16. Apr. 2022, 15:43:

> Hi,
>
> it could always inline it.
>
> For small sizes do that mov and for large sizes do rep stosb on x86. It is
> very fast nowadays. Faster than FillChar on my Intel laptop. (except for
> mid sizes like 128 bytes)
>

FillChar is on most platforms an assembly function and FPC *never* inlines
assembly functions.

Regards,
Sven

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