Xref: utzoo comp.lang.c:12254 comp.arch:6207 Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!uflorida!novavax!proxftl!bill From: bill@proxftl.UUCP (T. William Wells) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.arch Subject: Re: Explanation, please! Message-ID: <682@proxftl.UUCP> Date: 31 Aug 88 08:03:58 GMT References: <653@paris.ICS.UCI.EDU> <2877@ttrdc.UUCP> Reply-To: bill@proxftl.UUCP (T. William Wells) Organization: Proximity Technology, Ft. Lauderdale Lines: 14 Summary: Expires: Sender: Followup-To: Distribution: Keywords: In article chuck@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Charles Simmons) writes: : I then added a piece to the program to use 'memcpy'. The results? : Duff beats a simple loop by 10%. 'memcpy' is 9 times faster than : Duff. So why do people spend so much time avoiding standard subroutines? Try some history, bud; it's good for what ails you. I doubt that memcpy even existed then; and it is *not* standard now. Perhaps it will be several years after the ANSI standard is adopted, but not till then. --- Bill novavax!proxftl!bill