Fastest way to replace NAs in a large data.table

Question

I have a large data.table, with many missing values scattered throughout its ~200k rows and 200 columns. I would like to re code those NA values to zeros as efficiently as

Answer 1

> DT = data.table(a=LETTERS[c(1,1:3,4:7)],b=sample(c(15,51,NA,12,21),8,T),key="a")
> DT
   a  b
1: A 12
2: A NA
3: B 15
4: C NA
5: D 51
6: E NA
7: F 15
8: G 51
> DT[is.na(b),b:=0]
> DT
   a  b
1: A 12
2: A  0
3: B 15
4: C  0
5: D 51
6: E  0
7: F 15
8: G 51
>