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From: Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: Computer architects leaving Intel...
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2024 10:36:55 +0300
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On Tue, 10 Sep 2024 05:22:32 -0000 (UTC)
Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de> wrote:

> Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> schrieb:
> > On Mon, 09 Sep 2024 07:07:25 GMT
> > anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) wrote:
> >
> > Does hardware on which negative stride is faster really exists?  
> 
> Depends on what the alterntive is.
> 
> For a Fortran assignment
> 
> 	a(n1:n2) = a(n3:n4)
> 
> the semantics of the language demand that the RHS is evaluated
> completely before the assignment.  In the case of the wrong
> kind of overlap, a negative stride can be used instead of
> using an array temporary.

That sounds like memmove. The context of discussion was memcpy.