Re: 3DNow! patches on Winchip.

Matthew Wilcox (willy@thepuffingroup.com)
Thu, 30 Dec 1999 14:59:19 -0500

On Thu, Dec 30, 1999 at 07:34:58PM +0000, Dave Jones wrote:
> Should I be bencmarking against the memcpy() in lib/string.c,
> or the one in include/asm/string.h ?

The latter; the one in lib is used if the architecture doesn't have an
optimised memcpy() routine. For some reason, people seem to consider
this an important optimisation :-)

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