Why set zero in zero.c rather than use xor_n

[Marc Glisse]

On Mon, 5 Feb 2018, Niels Möller wrote:

>> I am not sure it is important enough to write in asm, though.
>
> Probably not. But it might make sense to rewrite as a wrapper for
> memset, which I'd expect to be well optimized in gcc and libc.

If you compile the current zero.c with -O3, gcc generates a call to memset 
(protected by a test). If that's what we are getting, we might as well 
write it this way and make the function inline.

Supposedly, for small sizes, mpn_zero can have a smaller overhead than 
memset, since it has more alignment information. But I don't think I've 
ever used mpn_zero...

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Marc Glisse