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Jul 12, 2022 7 min

This decades old function in Linux is now 4 times faster

from The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser Hosted by Hussein Nasser

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 Fundamentals of Networking for Effective Backends udemy course (link redirects to udemy with coupon) https://network.husseinnasser.com

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