Be aware that the strlcpy paper's timing data comes from another era altogether; an era in which a 25 MHz Motorola 68040 and a 166 MHz Alpha had some slight rel

Be aware that the strlcpy paper's timing data comes from another era altogether; an era in which a 25 MHz Motorola 68040 and a 166 MHz Alpha had some slight relevance. Nowadays your phone has 10 to 100 times as much performance. Worrying about a few milliseconds then is now wasting brain cells worrying about microseconds.