This decades old function in Linux is now 4 times faster
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memchr() is a function that searches in a memory block for a character, this has been recently improved in the latest linux patch and we can learn something from this improvement I think, lets discuss.
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-Kernel-Faster-memchr
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