As suspected, memset adds quite some moverhead. So much that I'd say it
was poorly written (this is freebsd 9):
MPN_ZERO mpn_zero memset
1 #2.9182 7.7789 30.1435
2 #1.9448 4.8618 15.0717
3 #1.6206 3.8895 10.0605
4 #1.4586 3.4043 7.5431
5 #1.3626 3.1160 6.0306
7 #1.2519 2.7796 4.3062
9 #1.1885 2.5930 3.3531
12 #2.0273 2.4317 2.5155
16 #2.0055 2.3101 2.3701
22 1.9905 2.2106 #1.9889
31 1.9761 2.1335 #1.6938
43 1.9680 2.4401 #1.4940
60 1.9633 2.0787 #1.3451
84 1.6791 1.8050 #0.9857
118 1.4755 1.5990 #0.9080
166 1.3313 1.4825 #0.7878
234 1.2258 1.3859 #0.7102
330 1.1525 1.3535 #0.6438
466 1.1002 1.2659 #0.5957
658 1.0625 1.2222 #0.5650
930 1.0367 1.2231 #0.5411
GNU's better:
MPN_ZERO mpn_zero memset
1 #2.9262 6.8264 13.6536
2 #1.9513 4.3888 6.8267
3 #1.6256 3.5758 2.9263
4 #1.4630 3.1695 2.1946
5 #1.3654 2.9255 2.1456
7 2.9264 2.6471 #1.5326
9 2.9257 2.4925 #1.5170
12 2.9257 2.3570 #1.1378
16 2.9260 2.2552 #0.7924
22 2.9255 2.1720 #0.5763
31 2.9256 2.1079 #0.5978
43 2.6988 2.4042 #0.6124
60 2.2104 1.9992 #0.5364
84 1.8577 1.7074 #0.5225
118 1.6034 1.4960 #0.5043
166 1.4218 1.3454 #0.4994
234 1.2920 1.2381 #0.5043
330 1.1998 1.1615 #0.5379
466 1.1348 1.1070 #0.5232
658 1.0880 1.0687 #0.5130
930 1.0550 1.0413 #0.5056
1315 1.0317 1.0228 #0.5044
1859 1.0153 1.0084 #0.4997
2628 1.0037 0.9993 #0.4940
3715 0.9956 0.9923 #0.4933
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