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		cokernel_hacker on July 18, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Zeroing Memory is Hard: VC++ 2015 arrays Clang/C2 doesn't use LLVM, it will use Microsoft's C2 backend.

pbsd on July 18, 2016 [–]

That may be the case, but whatever the Clang frontend sends to C2 does produce better code than the Microsoft frontend. It probably already folds the stores at the frontend level, instead of leaving it to the backend to figure out.

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