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Changes in glibc development

Changes in glibc development

Posted Mar 28, 2012 16:58 UTC (Wed) by cmccabe (guest, #60281)
In reply to: Changes in glibc development by quotemstr
Parent article: Changes in glibc development

Linus Torvalds believed that the new memcpy was actually slower, as well as a bad decision from the release management point of view. There's no point in rehashing the discussion, you can find it all here:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=638477


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