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While you are right, we are where we are and there is tremendous leverage in making an extremely common (even if undesirable) thing more efficient. It kind of d

While you are right, we are where we are and there is tremendous leverage in making an extremely common (even if undesirable) thing more efficient. It kind of doesn't matter why millions of lines of code perform memcpys - they do, and we're unlikely to change majority of them anytime soon. P.S. I work on the type of systems where we obsess over unneeded memory accesses and copies. Minimizing those is not as trivial as it may seem, especially if you care about memory safety.

vanderZwan 4y ago
> While you are right, we are where we are and there is tremendous leverage in making an extremely common (even if undesirable) thing more efficient. Aren't you worried that this will just lead to another manifestation of the Jevons Paradox? I get that you already mention that everyone in your "field" understands that memory is the bottleneck to avoid, but still. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox