a = b or memset/cpy?

memset and memcpy are turning up in profiles a lot. I'd like to speed
things up a bit.

Sometimes it is clear that using = to initialize a local would be
better than memset. I might not gain anything, but at least there's a
chance.

However, can I gain performance improvements when zeroing out say some
global element in an array like so:

typedef struct x { int var0; char var1[20]; } X;

X gX[30];

void f(int slot)
{
X init = {0};

gX[slot] = init;

...
}

vs.
void f(int slot)
{
memset(&gX[slot], 0, sizeof(X));

...
}

Normally I wouldn't look for a micro-optimization like this but I'm
kind of stuck with the parameters I'm given.
.

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