[Insight-developers] memcpy usage in itk and vtk

[Bradley Lowekamp]

Bill,

I think that copy is required for generic programming like much of ITK.

But when you have a known type, I don't see any reason to look down on memcpy. 

Brad

On Apr 9, 2013, at 5:02 PM, Bill Lorensen <bill.lorensen at gmail.com> wrote:

> Kent says:
> "There are (before this patch) 88 calls to memcpy
> in the ITK source code."
> 
> In VTK, there are 2076 uses of memcpy in 452 classes.. Perhaps the older sibling can learn from the younger.
> 
> There are 34 uses of std::copy in vtk.
> 
> Bill
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