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> Yesterday we saw how compilers zero registers efficiently. It took several tries to understand zero is a verb

• gbacon 10mo ago
  Verbing weirds language.
  • deleted 10mo ago
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  • pwdisswordfishy 10mo ago
    Zero-suffixing does weird language.
  • mattgodbolt 10mo ago
    Tell me about it...someone turned my name into a verb...
• delta_p_delta_x 10mo ago
  It might have been a little bit clearer to say: Yesterday we saw how compilers zero out registers efficiently. Or better still: Yesterday we saw how compilers set the values in registers to zero efficiently.
• kragen 10mo ago
  Often I use "zeroize" rather than "zero" to avoid such confusion.