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LoganDarktoday at 12:00 PM1 replyview on HN

I wonder if Apple Silicon has hardware acceleration for memory zeroing... Knowing Apple, I wouldn't be surprised.


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chuckadamstoday at 2:48 PM

ARM in general does, or at least some modern variants. Various docs for Android and LLVM suggest it's part of the Memory Tagging Extension.