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SubjectRe: Fast memcpy patch
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On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 12:25 PM, N. Coesel <nico@nctdev.nl> wrote:
> Dear readers,
> I noticed the Linux kernel still uses a byte-by-byte copy method for memcpy.
> Since most memory allocations are aligned to the integer size of a cpu it is
> often faster to copy by using the CPU's native word size. The patch below
> does that. The code is already at work in many 16 and 32 bit embedded
> products. It should also work for 64 bit platforms. So far I only tested 16
> and 32 bit platforms.

Please note, this is only the fallback implementation.
Each arch has it's own optimized version.

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Thanks,
//richard


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