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Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2013 23:30:47 -0500
From: Strake <strake888@...il.com>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Thinking about release

On 09/07/2013, Andre Renaud <andre@...ewatersys.com> wrote:
> I wasn't too sure on memmove, but I've seen a reasonable amount of
> code which just uses memmove as standard (rather than memcpy), to
> avoid the possibility of overlapping regions. Not a great policy

Why? What loss with memmove? That it takes 1.0125 times as long as
memcpy, other than when memcpy might just trash the array or summon
nasal demons anyhow?

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