Re: faster strcpy()

Richard B. Johnson (root@chaos.analogic.com)
Sun, 26 Apr 1998 23:59:14 -0400 (EDT)

On 27 Apr 1998, Michael O'Reilly wrote:
[SNIPPED for brevity]
This is my last response on this subject.
>
> And each word is 4 bytes, so you're taking 6 clocks per word + const,
> or 1.5 clocks per byte + const.

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
bytes.
>
> Have you actually tried benchmarking this? It's kinda hard to argue
> with the facts.
>
The benchmark has been submitted.

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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