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		rurban on Aug 21, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Bulk Data Structures C++ Not memmove. A trivial object assignment can be _memcpy_aligned, which is much faster. And the size is compile-time constant.

lenkite on Aug 21, 2019 [–]

I assume you mean aligned on boundaries ? I picked up that from https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/copy_assignment and it does also say that memmove has a fallback to std::memcp when there is no overlap between source and destination.

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