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I wrote this code for a university project I'm doing myself,
which involves initializing a *very* large array (it's a
remote memory system). It does help there, certainly; for
medium-sized arrays, the improvement would be negligable,
and for small ones it might even be worse.

If you mean, have I benchmarked it with other people's code,
no. I just thought I'd offer it to the community, since it
has certainly helped me.