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		CyanLite2 11 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Span<T>.SequenceEquals is faster than memcmp The article missed the biggest thing: SequenceEquals is SIMD accelerated. memcmp is not.

qingcharles 11 months ago [–]

This is almost certainly the answer.

There are a bunch of Intel folks on the dotnet core github regularly pushing new SIMD updates for CPUs that aren't even released yet. They are trying to make sure your .NET code runs nice on your new datacenter servers.

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