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How To Move Bytes Around

2026-02-01T15:10:00+01:00 for 00:40

If you take a random program and start profiling it, you'll usually find that the memcpy function is at the top. However, this doesn't necessarily mean memcpy is slow. The most hopeless thing a C++/Rust developer can do (while no one is watching) is optimize memcpy to move bytes faster. That's exactly what we'll do.

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