Modern CPUs and strlcpy() performance

A really interesting write-up about how strlcpy() performs on modern CPUs. It reminds me a bit of the ACM Queue article C Is Not a Low-level Language, showing why our expectations of optimization might not hold up in the real world: https://nrk.neocities.org/articles/cpu-vs-common-sense

Things like branch prediction, instruction-level parallelism (ILP) and SIMD (Single Instruction, Multiple Data) CPU optimization techniques are real and affect performance more than we might expect. Real-world benchmarking is still an invaluable tool to confirm or disprove theoretical performance optimizations.