[Insight-developers] memcpy usage in itk and vtk

[Bill Lorensen]

Brad,

I agree. I looked at a bunch of web discussions regarding the pros and
cons. Your comment seems to be the consensus.

Bill


On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 10:04 AM, Bradley Lowekamp
<blowekamp at mail.nih.gov>wrote:

> 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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