Re: faster strcpy()
Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Mon, 27 Apr 1998 10:46:06 +0100 (BST)
> In the exampled cited, each word is 2 bytes. Words have always been
> two bytes. Longwords have 4 bytes. A longword copy requires more
> overhead in setting up plus it has to copy possibly 3 unaligned
On 8086 maybe. On ARM a word is 32bits, on the DEC10 a word is 36bits
on the PDP8 a word is 18bits IIRC.
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