Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Thu, 01 Feb 2001 08:53:59 -0500 | | From | Tom Leete <> |
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Alan Cox wrote: > > We have a very large number of memcpy's of unknown short length (often in > interrupts) that are close to branches. A lot of > > if(foo==NULL) > return > memcpy(.. > > stuff for example. > > Im more than happy for someone to do the benches and prove me wrong
Agreed, that is a bad case, and there is overhead for it in my patch. I'm putting together some metrics, will post results here.
Regards, Tom
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