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From: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: New life for MOVEM!
Message-ID: <19100@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 19 Feb 91 06:32:45 GMT
References: <1991Feb11.160212.7749@vax1.tcd.ie>
Reply-To: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <1991Feb11.160212.7749@vax1.tcd.ie> smcgerty@vax1.tcd.ie writes:
>Here's a little trick that someone might find useful:
>(maybe its common knowlage?)

	Yes.

[example of movem-loop follows..]

	Or you could use CopyMem() (or CopyMemQuick() when you know the source
and destination are aligned).  They use movem-loops when possible.  (In
fact, under 2.0 CopyMem is adaptive to the processor in use).

	Suprising what you can do when you use the OS....

-- 
Randell Jesup, Keeper of AmigaDos, Commodore Engineering.
{uunet|rutgers}!cbmvax!jesup, jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com  BIX: rjesup  
The compiler runs
Like a swift-flowing river
I wait in silence.  (From "The Zen of Programming")  ;-)